How are we supposed to know that stuff? I don't remember a chapter about dialing from hotel rooms?
Brenda Mueller > ----- Original Message ----- >From: Peggy Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Braillenote List <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 18:49:35 -0800 >Subject: Re: [Braillenote] surprising goings-on in a hotel bedroom >To dial 9 from a hotel with the BN, you have to put a 9 and a comma in the >phone number of the service you want to call. You don't just manually dial 9. >Peggy >At 06:57 PM 1/2/2004 +0000, you wrote: >>New Year greetings to all from one who has rested one BrailleNote for the >>past few days. >>I do hope that this intriguing subject line will spare the blushes of >>Messrs. Kevin, Sean, Lew, Dan, Charles, Chris et Al, whoever he may >>be. But, gentle folk, read on, mark, and learn by my mistakes!!! >>I spent Christmas and New Year away from home, and took my BrailleNote >>with me to the hotel. Right, said the manager, if you dial 9 for an >>outside line, you should have no difficulty sending or receiving e-mail!!! >>So there I was, in my hotel bedroom, with my beloved wife, Audrey, >>BrailleNote and telephone plugged in a double-jacked wall socket. I >>picked up the receiver, and dialled 9. I then went through the usual >>procedures for checking for new e-mail. The eleven-digit number dialled >>away merrily, accompanied by an unusual background hiss. Then a phone >>started to ring within the BrailleNote itself, if you follow me. After >>about four rings, it stopped, and a garbled, totally unintelligible voice >>could be heard issuing from the BrailleNote's interior!!! >>I tried again, this time, for no logical reason, dialling 9 with the phone >>still on the hook. Again, I was connected, not to my service provider, >>but to the hotel switchboard. >>Our stay was adventurous in other ways. We were woken early on New >>Year's Day by someone telling us that we should ring our daughter, but as >>we have no children, we decided that that was a hoax call from a yob. >>Last night, or, to be more precise, between three and ten past four this >>morning, the hotel's washing machine was switched on at full throttle, in >>the laundry room next door to our room. >>The hotel tried to charge me fifteen pence (about ten cents) for the >>failed e-mail retrieval attempts, of which there were about four in all. >>All comments gratefully accepted. >>Warm regards, >>Jim Taylor. >>___ >>To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >>http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.home.earthlink.net/~kernsac >MSN Messenger [EMAIL PROTECTED] >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
