telecom@ucbvax.ARPA (11/30/84)
From: Jon Solomon (the Moderator) <Telecom-Request@BBNCCA> TELECOM Digest Thu, 29 Nov 84 22:34:22 EST Volume 4 : Issue 129 Today's Topics: phone wiring Hello, I'm a computer Re: TELECOM Digest V4 #127 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed 28 Nov 84 16:16:01-PST From: Mike Dixon <MDIXON@SU-SCORE.ARPA> Subject: phone wiring To: telecom@BBNCCA.ARPA while attempting a bit of reverse-engineering on my phone answering machine (a record-a-call 675) i noticed that it seems to expect signals on the first and fourth wires (modular plug) as well as the second and third. all the phones i've ever looked at ignored these wires, and indeed some extension jacks don't even connect them... can someone give a brief summary of what each of the four wires are used for, what the signal levels are like, etc.? thanks. .mike. ------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Nov 84 13:00:51 EST From: Craig MacFarlane <cmacfarl@BBNCCJ.ARPA> Subject: Hello, I'm a computer To: telecom@bbncca.arpa Have many of you noticed the increase in computer/recordings that call your no. to get you to buy something? In the last 2-3 weeks I've received about 5 of these calls, and I'm rarely at home. Where does the law draw the line between inquiry and abuse? Is there any- thing stopping someone from setting up a recording that will call every no. in the local area, and say "eat at joes"? I think the ones that bother me the most are the surveing calls, where the recording pauses for a response, because you can't find out who they are. Anyway, I was just wondering if this is fad or trend... [raig ------------------------------ Date: Thu 29 Nov 84 22:01:27-EST From: Keith M. Gabryelski <GZT.KEITH%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA> Subject: Re: TELECOM Digest V4 #127 To: TELECOM@BBNCCA.ARPA A couple of things: Re: Screening BBS Mail.. Would anyone out there like to right the routines for the various computers. I sure wouldn't like to put in a time wasting routine like that on my BBS. Re: Interuptions.. I've never had a problem interupting a line. I've even used bizarre names that only the receiving party would understand and I still never had a problem. Maybe the operator was new operator that just finished reading the "Standard Practices" (You've gotta break the new ones in.) Re: Party Lines.. There have been several party lines (that I have been on) up and down the coast here. Charlie Oakland I think is the one that runs the one in SF. (They would not allow stuff of questionable nature on the line). There is also one in LA related with FEEDBACK I think. I've noticed that 4-5 is the maximun number of people you can have on a conference before it got annoying. With all the people being random, I would say that the number would have be a lot less. (Lukers not-withstanding.. ofcourse who would lurk with prices like that.) Keith ------- ------------------------------ End of TELECOM Digest ******************************