Busy Connect

Thu Jan 28 06:50:29 UTC 1999

On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 07:35:27PM -0500, Jared Mauch wrote:
> 	Ameritech started to do something like this.
> 
> 	If you dial and get RNA, after a certain number of rings,
> it will say "press 1 if you want to leave a message"
> 	
> 	- jared

Yes, but.

Getting a no-answer message from the modem, when the other end isn't
answering, is fine.

Getting a no-answer message from the modem, when the other end is busy, isn't
cool. And it will confuse a lot of customers who do not know better.

-- 
Steve Sobol sjsobol at nacs.net (AKA support at nacs.net and abuse at nacs.net)

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