Re: Urban Legend (Was: Fwd: FW: A Friendly Tip)

[Supersport <ebradio@flash.net>]

I was only trying to be helpful.  And I am getting emails from folks who
don't appreciate that.  So, I will refrain from alerting this group in the
future.

SS


At 11:44 AM 5/8/98 +0000, Dan Strassberg wrote:
>At 12:07 PM 5/7/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>
>>Not true.  Just another urban legend being passed along to the
>>un-suspecting.  Aren't there web sites where one can check up on such stuff
>>before passing it along?
>>
>Sure SOUNDS like an urban legend, but while riding in my car last evening
>about 5:30, I heard a Bell Atlantic spokesman being interviewed on a radio
>talk show, (God forgive me--I _might_ have been listening to Howie Carr.)
>Somebody brought this up and the BA guy said that the warning was valid! In
>fact, he went on to explain why PBXs incorporate this feature. What he
>didn't say (and what _may_ be the case) is that the feature doesn't work on
>residential phones. I don't _know_ that it doesn't work on residential
>phones, however. So before we put this one down, we need to check it out.
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