ISP Information:
A type of network communication where information is sent from a single source to a single destination, eliminating any extraneous data transmission. See also broadcast.
ISP Glossary:
Point to Point - [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: ... I am sure most or all of our readers here know about Jane Barbe: the voice of the old Bell System intercept messages for many, many years. Her voice is still heard at many telephone companies when someone dials a 'wrong number'.So this means her telephone number will be shut off, and then ifsomeone calls it what do you suppose they will hear ...?Gordon S. Hlavenka http://www.crashelectronics.comGrammar and spelling flames welcome.Yes, that's really my email address. Don't change it.[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I do not know if she was the only userof her personal telephone number or not; if she was, and if the telcoserving her home community still uses her recordings then when someonedial that number, I imagine they will still hear her announcing thatthe number is disconnected.This reminds me of several years ago when the old WNIB radio stationin Chicago had an announcer named Bruce Duffie. Every Saturday night,Mr. Duffie played some interesting recordings from a fellow who hadbeen dead for about twenty years (at that point.) On his tapes now andthen, the fellow alluded to the fact that he enjoyed letters fromlisteners 'in care of this station'. I asked Mr. Duffie did WNIB stillget any mail for the fellow; he said for a few years there was a lotof it and they forwarded it to the man's widow for answering, but thatlately there had not been much mail for the guy. When I asked him whatwould happen now if a letter arrived, he thought a minute and said,"Well I suppose it would go to the dead letter office." PAT]
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