roy%phri@UUNET.UU.NET (Roy Smith) (03/20/88)
An extememly bizarre thing happened to me the other day. My phone
rang and when I picked it up, what I heard was the sound of a remote phone
ringing (as if I had placed a call and was waiting for the other party to
pick up). After a few seconds, I heard what sounded like somebody picking
up the phone but (after a few very confused moments) it was obvious that
the person on the other end was somebody who had just placed a call and was
surprised that I wasn't the person she had called.
Anybody have any idea what might have happened?
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Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016mgrant@mimsy.umd.EDU (Michael Grant) (03/21/88)
Yes, sounds like you were a victem of the infamous 3-way-call prank where some prankster calles you and someone else with 3-way-calling and listens to the confused conversation for his/her listening enjoyment pleasure. -Mike
shs@RAMONES.RUTGERS.EDU (S. H. Schwartz) (03/23/88)
In article <3202@phri.UUCP> roy%phri@UUNET.UU.NET (Roy Smith) writes: > > An extememly bizarre thing happened to me the other day. My phone >rang and when I picked it up, what I heard was the sound of a remote phone >ringing (as if I had placed a call and was waiting for the other party to >pick up). After a few seconds, I heard what sounded like somebody picking >up the phone but (after a few very confused moments) it was obvious that >the person on the other end was somebody who had just placed a call and was >surprised that I wasn't the person she had called. The Dimension PBX has an option where, if I'm trying to call another inside extension, but it's busy, I set my phone to redial in the background. When the other person's phone becomes free, PBX grabs his line, and rings my phone; then I answer, and -his- phone starts ringing. Still, the destination shouldn't hear ringing until the source picks up for the second time. -- ---***--- Spring cleaning: get the BREAD out!! S. H. Schwartz (201) 846-9185 shs@paul.rutgers.edu (201) 932-4714 ...rutgers!paul.rutgers.edu!shs
roy%phri@UUNET.UU.NET (Roy Smith) (03/23/88)
mgrant@mimsy.umd.EDU (Michael Grant) writes: > sounds like you were a victem of the infamous 3-way-call prank Nice try, but I don't think that's what happened. The party I ended up talking to insisted that she had just *placed* a call, not gotten one as would happen with a 3-way prank. Then again, in the confusion I suppose it's possible that either she didn't say what she meant to say, or I didn't understand her right. -- Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
sparks@TCGOULD.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Steve Gaarder) (03/30/88)
Once upon I time, when I was in high school, a friend and I took 2 phone
lines, called the John Birch Society on one and the National Socialist
White People's Party on the other, connected the two lnes together, and
listened. This was before 3-way calling was even heard of.
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Steve Gaarder
Cornell University, 171 Hollister, Ithaca NY 14853 607-255-5389
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