On 2016-02-06, at 08:49, Chris Hoelscher wrote: > Linda - did you have call waiting? If you forgot to disable it before > "hooking up" that little click/beep indicator of an incoming call would throw > me offline (Apple ][+) > Similarly irritating, later I had a modem (RJ11, not acoustical) that would auto-redial on busy signal. Then U.S. West did me the favor of intercepting the busy and replacing it with a voice message offering for $0.95 to keep redialing and call me back when it answered.
To their credit, they disabled the behavior when I complained to them. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
