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ssDude

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On campus, my phone is popping constantly and sometimes it rings back when I hang up. I have heard that the call back is a shortcoming of cheap monitoring equipment. I have also heard this about the popping noise too.


 


1) Do you really think Thames would still “listen in” on phone calls after the fuss it caused when it became known he was doing this?


 


2) Also, isn’t it possible that someone in I-tech could be “listening in” on other people and keeping a record of internet traffic that passes through campus phone lines?


 


3) And isn’t it possible that some faculty member in cahoots with  I-tech could be doing this to Thames and his friends? Do you think Thames thinks about this?


 


 



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Big Brother is listening

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Yes


Yes


No



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LVN

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While I would always be careful what I said on a University line, in fact my home phone has been having a lot of popping on the line since we went to the 10-digit dialing on Monday. I don't have the technical smarts to know if that's a real possibility.
Or maybe . . . .

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Invictus

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Heck, LVN, the digital music channels on my cable television (about the only thing worth "watching" these days) has been popping all week. Now I know the answer: 10 digit dialing.



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Joe McCarthy

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10-digit-dialing is a communist plot to sterilize the American male. EOD.

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truth4usm/AH

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Originally posted by: Joe McCarthy
"10-digit-dialing is a communist plot to sterilize the American male. EOD."


That's "Red-Blooded American Male," Joe!


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Originally posted by: Invictus
"Heck, LVN, the digital music channels on my cable television (about the only thing worth "watching" these days) has been popping all week. Now I know the answer: 10 digit dialing.

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Invictus, it's not nice to make fun of the elderly and confused.

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Invictus

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"Invictus, it's not nice to make fun of the elderly and confused."


I wasn't making fun of myself in this instance, although I have been known to do so at times.

Phone numbers have baffled me ever since Hattiesburg numbers quit being things like JUniper-1-2345...

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BR-549

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Originally posted by: Invictus
" I wasn't making fun of myself in this instance, although I have been known to do so at times. Phone numbers have baffled me ever since Hattiesburg numbers quit being things like JUniper-1-2345..."
Yes indeedy. The old numbers with alphabetic prefixes were much easier to remember.

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I really would like to know if anything having to do with the line noise could be the result of the switch over. The switching station (or whatever they call it now) is just over next to the 40th Ave Post Office. [Sorry for my ignorance, I was briefly a toll operator long long ago in the days of cord boards, but my knowledge has been obsolete for many, many years. It's stored right next to my knowledge of DOS 2.0.]

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SaveUSM

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What is the deal with 10 digit dialing...you have to dial an area code everytime you make a call now??

Is that just at USM or everywhere?

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Operator

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"What is the deal with 10 digit dialing...you have to dial an area code everytime you make a call now?? Is that just at USM or everywhere?"
10 digit dialing is gradually becoming a reality all over the country. You might recall when Mississippi had only a 601 area code, but now there are three area codes within the state. But now even the 601 area code is going to 10-digit dialing. It is already in effect for Hattiesburg. Inconvenient, for sure, but better than going back to the system where we had letters and numbers (e.g., BR-549).

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Invictus

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Originally posted by: SaveUSM
"What is the deal with 10 digit dialing...you have to dial an area code everytime you make a call now?? Is that just at USM or everywhere?"


The 601 area code is being positioned to be split to a second area code. As I understand it, cellphone companies have bought up huge blocks of numbers to sell & Bellsouth is beginning to run short of numbers.

This still doesn't explain the popping on my digital music cable channels...

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