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They must have been live then, most of the ones I get are just recordings.
Youcan put the phone back five mins later you want to make a call and the
line is still connected and drivveling on about the Bahamas or something.

Brian

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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Paul Martin
saying something like:

I often get calls from rather odd "foreign" numbers, wanting to play
prerecorded announcements in US accents.

If they ask me to press "1" to speak to an operator, I do so, then put
them on hold (with music).

Ha. Last one of those I had I replied in a gruff American accent,
"Goddamn, do you realise how much trouble you are in? How in hell did
you get this number, pal?"

click, beeeeeeee
That particular lot (some timeshare ******* offering a 'Congratulations'
prize, haven't called back in six months, where they were calling every
month, beforehand.

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Brian Gaff wrote:
They must have been live then, most of the ones I get are just recordings.
Youcan put the phone back five mins later you want to make a call and the
line is still connected and drivveling on about the Bahamas or something.

Press the Recall (R) button (or on a very old phone briefly press
the receiver rest). You'll get a dial tone. Put the phone down.
It will ring. Don't answer it. It will soon stop ringing, and
the line will be free.

-- Richard
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Hmm only works sometimes on my Virgin line.

Brian

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In article ,
Brian Gaff wrote:
They must have been live then, most of the ones I get are just recordings.
Youcan put the phone back five mins later you want to make a call and the
line is still connected and drivveling on about the Bahamas or something.

Press the Recall (R) button (or on a very old phone briefly press
the receiver rest). You'll get a dial tone. Put the phone down.
It will ring. Don't answer it. It will soon stop ringing, and
the line will be free.

-- Richard
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In article ,
Brian Gaff wrote:
They must have been live then, most of the ones I get are just recordings.
Youcan put the phone back five mins later you want to make a call and the
line is still connected and drivveling on about the Bahamas or something.

Press the Recall (R) button (or on a very old phone briefly press
the receiver rest). You'll get a dial tone. Put the phone down.
It will ring. Don't answer it. It will soon stop ringing, and
the line will be free.

Wow - I never knew you could clear a line like that. I knew you could do a
"ground recall" (the function you described) to get a second connection, but
didn't know about hanging up and leaving it ringing to clear it.

Thanks for the tip.

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"Richard Tobin" wrote in message
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In article ,
Brian Gaff wrote:
They must have been live then, most of the ones I get are just recordings.
Youcan put the phone back five mins later you want to make a call and the
line is still connected and drivveling on about the Bahamas or something.

Press the Recall (R) button (or on a very old phone briefly press
the receiver rest). You'll get a dial tone. Put the phone down.
It will ring. Don't answer it. It will soon stop ringing, and
the line will be free.

Wow - I never knew you could clear a line like that. I knew you could do a
"ground recall" (the function you described) to get a second
connection, but
didn't know about hanging up and leaving it ringing to clear it.

You seem to have gotten the wrong end of the stick. Please note the
"briefly press the receiver rest" phrase above. This only works on
exchanges which allow the use of "Timed Break Recall" on lines where
this service is enabled (a common feature on PABXs which used crossbar
or the later digital switching technologies).

The operative word here is 'briefly'. Hanging up just doesn't cut it.

Although any modern exchange (Crossbar and later) can support TBR, I
don't think it is necessarily offered as a standard feature on a BT
line. Telcos, such as NTL (VM) may well provide it as standard but it's
a feature I haven't had a notion to test on my BT line so, for all I
know, it may well now be a standard feature.

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