Date: Sunday, August 4, 1996  9:16pm                           Forum: Classic
From: Blue Devil                                                Msg#: 1054553
  To: ** ALL **
  Re: RING.. RING.. RING.. does this happen to you?
      (Copy by Autox, Reply to #928953)

DS>       (a) Pick up your voice line and dial 663-3343.  Wait for it to
DS>           start ringing.  Leave the phone off the hook.
DS>       (b) Dial 663-3343 with your computer on the other line.  With
DS>           the dead modem's line tied up, your call will hit the good
DS>           modems and you'll probably get a connection.
DS>       (c) With the connection established, you can hang up your voice
DS>           line.

Ah.  My exact method for getting onto CRL, whose modems are flakier than
a crate of pugs.  Of course, now I don't worry about it because I got de
ISDN baybeeeee!!!!! (the next best thing to local logon)

BTW, one can use a similar method to get out of an annoying phone call:

[your grandma]: "So then George said to Jules that if Harry really
WANTED hemmorhoid surgery, why didn't he just put it on his.."

[you]: "Uh-huh...uh-huh" [KLICK KLICK KLICK ATDT 555-4123^M]

[your grandma]: "But Harry wasn't sure it was piles, I mean the guy
isn't very regular if you know what I mean, so he decided to..."

[your phone]: "Beep!" [grandma hears a click]

[your grandma]: "and I just don't know what to...oh, is that your other
line, dear?"

[you]: "Yeah...hang on." [Click] [SQUEEEEAEAEAEAAEEALL!!!]

[wait for it...]

[wait for it...]

[you] [Click]: "Gramma, that's my proctologist on the other line.  I
better take it."

[your grandma]: "Okay, sugar.  See you later."

[you]: 'Yippppeeeeeeee!'


(caveat: Don't try this unless you have call waiting.)

];-)
(it could happen...you can also set a Procomm timed execution or paused
script to page you in the middle of a blind date...just in case...)