Re: Busying Lines

Greg Wiley (greg@loop.com)
Thu, 07 Sep 1995 21:58:06 +0000

>As has been mentioned before, and I have done it, you simply short the two
>wires together. This works in my area with my telephone provider although I
>have heard of possibilities of damaging equipment in other areas of the globe.

I know I can short the line but I believe the accepted
practice is to use a resistor and capacitor in parallel.
I'm sure that modern telco switches limit current but
I'd like to account for the cases where we may be hooked
to older equipment.

-greg