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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1406.1 | | WOTVAX::HILTON | Save Water, drink beer | Thu Feb 27 1997 16:49 | 2 |
| REO is the only I've found that does this. It's something to do with
the telephone system in each office.
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| 1406.2 | the caller withheld their number | KERNEL::FREKES | Like a thief in the night | Fri Feb 28 1997 10:02 | 8 |
| Digital offices, or the CSC, appears to withhold the number from the
line you are calling.
Doing 1471 after placing a call from the CSC, comes back with a polite
message. "the caller withheld their number"
Steven F
CSC
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| 1406.3 | | COMICS::SUMNERC | OpenVMS Counter Intelligence | Fri Feb 28 1997 10:20 | 8 |
| Steve,
I've noticed that all calls coming from the Basinhstoke CSC appear as
the switchboard number (well they used to) 56101.
Now, where did I put my anorak ?
Chris
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| 1406.4 | | VAXCAT::GOLDY | An angel in disguise | Fri Feb 28 1997 10:22 | 4 |
| I've noticed that calls from DECpark extensions show the Caller ID on
my Mercury mobile as being the switchboard number.
Jane.
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| 1406.5 | | QUICHE::PITT | Alph a ha is better than no VAX! | Fri Feb 28 1997 10:49 | 6 |
| The only thing, in general, that Mercury could forward would be the number of
the line that the call came out of Digital on. This would be useless. I did
not realize there was any way of having the ddi of the extension originating
the call being forwarded, though .1 says that REO does it ...
T
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| 1406.6 | | QUICHE::PITT | Alph a ha is better than no VAX! | Fri Feb 28 1997 10:53 | 16 |
| Another point: I believe we have lines from (at least) both Mercury and BT.
Outgoing calls are routed over the DTN as far as they can be, and then they pop
out onto the external phone system.
Unless you can use the ddi of the originating extension, then the number of the
line out is even more useless, because it could be anywhere. If, for example,
I'm sitting in Basingstoke and I call a London number, then I think the call
will go DTN to London, and come out of Digital at HHL. What use is it to the
called party to see the London switchboard number?
And another thought: in this building, many of us have floating numbers. When
you sit at a desk, you pull your floating number through to the phone. The ddi
of the phone for an outgoing call could never be my own ddi: at times, we have
a considerable number of numbers pulled to the same physical phoneset...
T
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| 1406.7 | bye bye DTN | BBRDGE::LOVELL | � l'eau; c'est l'heure | Fri Feb 28 1997 14:49 | 13 |
| Tony
Private voice networks used to work like that 'cos if you had stumped
up all the money to put them in place, it was worth it to recoup your
investment. However for a long time now the DTN does not route like
that 'cos the complexity of us pretending to be a miniature BT costs us
more than we would save on the (relatively) cheaper trunk calls.
Furthermore, we are just about to ditch the whole of the European DTN
and go to the public network (or a VPN version thereof) but in any
case, no private bandwidth for inter-site telephone calls.
/Chris/
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| 1406.8 | | WOTVAX::16.194.64.227::warbly::bell | Martin Bell @BBP | Fri Feb 28 1997 15:20 | 8 |
| Oh well,
if we are changing the way we route our calls, lets hope that Caller ID's
somehow magically start working. Nowadays it seems impolite to withhold
your ID - or at least the ID of the switchboard on which the phone that
you are holding is connected.
mb
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