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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!know!mips2!news.bbn.com!usc!sdd.hp.com!hp-cv!hp-pcd!hp-vcd!dmunroe
  2. From: dmunroe@vcd.hp.com (Dave Munroe)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.peeves
  4. Subject: Phones (was: Re: False economy)
  5. Message-ID: <BxxBE1.Esz@vcd.hp.com>
  6. Date: 18 Nov 92 18:01:12 GMT
  7. References: <1yfqt4q@lynx.unm.edu> <Bxovzx.CML@vcd.hp.com> <41175@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
  8. Sender: news@vcd.hp.com (News user)
  9. Organization: Hewlett-Packard
  10. Lines: 15
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  12. In article <41175@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> ee152fdm@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (Maiko Covington) writes:
  13.  
  14. >Wait... when you call different countries, you DO get different
  15. >rings...  I think it's generated somewhere in between.
  16.  
  17. Yeah.  As several people have pointed out, the ring is coming from the
  18. exchange.
  19.  
  20. !Peeve: phones that display who the caller is.
  21.  
  22. -Dave
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