Subj : phUn with Bell back in the day...
To   : Crushed
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Mon Sep 23 2024 04:39 pm

  Re: phUn with Bell back in the day...
  By: Crushed to All on Mon Sep 23 2024 12:43 pm

 > For example - do you remember when Call Forwarding first came out?  For BBSs

I worked at a software company where one of the developers set up a FirstClass server to collaborate with a remote team that was in local toll territory - some of the most expensive calls at the time.

He didn't understand store-and-forward technologies. He set our side to poll every 10 minutes. 24 hours a day. To the tune of a couple of hundred dollars a month. I couldn't convince him that crash polling would work as well, and he was willing to eat the cost.

I spoke to my phone line broker who asked if I didn't mind bending the rules a bit. Sure, I said. He asked me to order call forward busy on my line. Call forward it to the remote end. Then, call MYSELF. The call goes xfer on busy to the destination, for the cost of message units instead of a toll call.
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