On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:25:27AM -0800, David Barak wrote: > > most american PBX's don't have 911 as a dialplan. > > you have to dial 9-911. > > We work on different PBXes. The ones on which I work > are specifically configured to respond to 911 OR 9-911 > to avoid a problem. Would YOU want to have been the > person who didn't enable one of those options, and > thus delayed response time?
Would *you* want to be the person who got a dressing down from the local fire chief because several of your phones had skip-py 1 keys, people trying to dial 9-1-800-555-1212 kept dialling 911 instead? There are *many* possible failure modes involving 911: http://www.911dispatch.com/911_file/911_misdials.html And for background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9-1-1 It's not as simple as it looks, off topic though it probably is. Cheers, -- jr 'learning opportunity' a -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system administrator. Or two. --me
