Sounds like McLeod is having significant trouble. Visi.com has sent out a notice that is significant number of their dial-in and ISDN customers are being affected by McLeod services being down as well. Good luck getting hold of them - the Visi e-mail said they had called them and have yet to get a response. > -----Original Message----- > From: tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org > [mailto:tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of duncan > Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 1:24 PM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] McLeod Contact? > > > talked to a guy i know who engineers "on-hold" boxes (voices you hear > when on hold...) and he said that a fast busy is a 'trunk' busy, that > you arent even making it all the way to the other ends phone. > > sounding informed can be key. > > duncan > > > > > > FWIW, the fast busy tone is known as a 'reorder tone' in > telecom terms. Sound informed, make them sweat. ;) > > > > Bill > > _______________________________________________ > > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - > Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > http://www.mn-linux.org > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. > Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >