dan@apple.com (Dan Howell) (01/19/89)
|[Moderator's Note: The main thing that I do not like about this approach |is the ringing of *random telephones looking for something else.* This is |just a variation on the programs which search for carrier by dialing |everyone else in the community without regard to their desire to be left |alone. I do not like 'demon-dialer' software. It causes an invasion of |privacy of others. P.Townson] It would seem that if 952 is a ringback exchange, it would not be listed in the phone book as a normal exchange. Then couldn't all the exchanges listed in the phone book be eliminated? Then you could dial all the remaining exchanges without worrying about bothering anyone (unless you happen to get a new exchange which wasn't listed in the phone book yet). -- Dan Howell <...!pyramid!comdesign!ivucsb!dan> <dan@ivucsb.UUCP>
wb8foz@uunet.UU.NET (David Lesher) (01/25/89)
I have found many, but not all BOC's use 55n-xxxx where xxxx
is the last 4 of the ntbrb (thats nUMBER tO bE rUNG bACK) and
n varied from CO to CO. I found 0,1,2,3 in various places.
The operative prefix was one NOT in use in that local dialing
area, of course.
I have had cases where I could not easily get the dang thing to
let go of the line when I was done;-{
Of more interest to me is the ANI number. In Cleveland, it
was 200+any 7d, except the correct #. If you had a wrong # the
ANI voice kindly told you which pair you were on. That was a
godsent when you had 30 trunks and you wanted to figure which
was where. It also gave out interesting numbers when used on
out-WATS lines.