🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 06 Nov 1998 20:06:42 +0000, peter@cara.demon.co.uk (Peter
Ceresole) wrote:

>In article <36430081.103248@news.demon.co.uk>,
>uk@nospam.demon.co.uk (Nempnett Thrubwell) wrote:
>
>>Hmmm, I just checked, and I *definitely* hear the initial "peep" using
>>the 3Coms on the Green Romp, so if they didn't send it I must have.
>
>Maybe it's me going deaf then... I know it's *clinically* true (never fire
>full bore military ammo in your youth because it comes back to haunt you)
>but I certainly can't hear V8 on the Green ROMP. I shall listen more
>acutely...

PARDON?

(for me it was a Man concert. . . <G>)

Seriously I'm wondering if there might be a problem with certain telco
interconnections where there's a switching delay before the next part
of the circuit comes up or something.

I remember when the place I then worked went from BT to Mercury, when
an outgoing call was answered there was a similar but lower frequency
audible "peep". . .which usually cut off the announcement of the
person replying, could be most annoying

"Hello, is that Smith's Motors?"

"I just said so, didn't I!"

(I hate comms!)