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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 00:00:39 GMT
- From: gordon@sneaky.lonestar.org (Gordon Burditt)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: What Are the Prefix "Codes" For Tone Dialing?
- Message-ID: <telecom13.4.11@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: Gordon Burditt
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 4, Message 11 of 12
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- > *65 turn on delivery of caller id (if you are subscribed)
- > *85 turn off delivery of caller id (why would anyone want to do this?)
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- Because some phone companies charge for Caller-ID on a per-number-
- delivered basis?
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- Gordon L. Burditt sneaky.lonestar.org!gordon
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- [Moderator's Note: IBT used to do that, but starting a few months ago
- they no longer charge for delivery over a certain number. One monthly
- fee pays for it all. Another oddity IMHO here is that call screening
- can be turned on with *60 and turned off with *80. This is despite the
- fact that while within the *60 menu of things to do, one can both add
- and remove numbers from the repertoire. If you can add or delete
- whatever you want there, why bother to have a command to turn it off?
- Perhaps it is because IBT is not marketing Call Screening as a
- permanent way to get rid of troublesome callers, but merely as a way
- to avoid certain people at certain times of day; although I cannot
- imagine be willing to chat with certain numbers on my list regardless
- of the time of day or occassion. Ditto the feature where you can list
- certain callers to get the red carpet with special ringing on your
- end; that too can be turned off, although if your boss is an important
- person to hear from at 3 PM, why wouldn't he be important at 3 AM? PAT]
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