[Asterisk-Dev] OMG THE SKY IS FALLING!! NOT!!!

[Kevin Williams]

Steven Critchfield wrote:

>Sometimes the telco does this for you. While living with my mom, I had a
>ISDN line. When I moved out it was decommissioned. A few years later, my
>mom wanted a extra line for her internet access. As the drop was already
>there, she just ordered the circuit. On the day it was to be turned up,
>I wired up the internals for her. Shortly after it was wired up, the
>line rang. I picked up the line and was surprised to be in a three way
>call with a budy up the street and a friend who was calling him. Talk
>about security, my friend had the line for more than a year and it was
>also terminated at my mothers house more than a block away also. 
>  
>
Similar story - my sister had her own line at my mom's house back when she was still at home.  About 10 years later, I was helping my mom set up my sister's old room to be a home office.  I plugged a modem into the existing wall jack (assuming it was wired to the house line) and a phone into the modem.  A few minutes later, the phone rang - but the rest of the phones in the house didn't.  Later, I picked it up and dialed my mom's number.  The other phones rang, my mom answered, and we talked. :)

Aparently it's not unusual for stuff like this to happen...