telecom@ucbvax.ARPA (12/29/84)
From: Jon Solomon (the Moderator) <Telecom-Request@BBNCCA>
TELECOM Digest Fri, 28 Dec 84 16:36:19 EST Volume 4 : Issue 139
Today's Topics:
lost message
Setting Up Call Forwarding From Another Telephone?
511
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Date: Fri, 28 Dec 84 16:34:48 EST
From: Jon Solomon <jsol@bbncca.ARPA>
Subject: lost message
To: telecom@bbncca.arpa
During the processing of today's digest, I lost a long message rating
several 2400 baud modems and the companies which sell them. Will whomever
sent that message please resend it to TELECOM@BBNCCA and I will be sure
and post it on the digest.
Sorry!
--JSol
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From: <nomdenet%tp3@rand-unix>
Date: Thursday, 27 Dec 1984 14:29-PST
To: randvax!telecom@BBNCCA
Subject: Setting Up Call Forwarding From Another Telephone?
Is it possible to set up (or cancel) call forwarding for a given telephone
from any other telephone normally or by phone-phreakish methods? I assume
call forwarding can be set up and/or cancelled from the central office. Yes?
No?
A. R. White
ARPA: tp3!nomdenet @ Rand-UNIX
UUCP: ... randvax!tp3!nomdenet
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Date: 27 Dec 1984 0824-EST (Thursday)
From: vax135!peora!jer@Berkeley (J. Eric Roskos)
To: telecom@BBNCCA.ARPA
Subject: 511
Being new to this conference, I just now tried out the various methods
suggested for identifying your own phone number. None of them worked (200-
555-1212 came closest, giving various unusual and nondeterministic results
after the first 5 was dialed), but dialing 511 caused the phone to go
completely dead (as someone else mentioned). My question is... why? Is
this a feature, a way of discouraging people from experimenting (it works
well for that), or just a bug? The phone stayed dead for quite some time.
Here in Orlando we are presently a market test area for a very useful
software product called "Touchstar", which provides blocking of calls from
unwanted numbers, redialing of the last person who called you (for missed
calls), repeat dialing (every 40 seconds for 30 minutes (45 tries in all,
which exceeds the purported limit for "attack dialing")), a special ring
for calls from "special people", customer-initiated call tracing,
forwarding of only selected callers, displaying of the number calling you
(requires special equipment), and the ability to "list the numbers of
incoming calls on computer equipment". (Both of the latter properly protect
non-published numbers). Hence I assume we have one of the newer switching
systems here, though I don't know which one. Any ideas on what 511 is for?
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