Seems at least once every 2 months, the in-house help-desk pumps the PA phone. Now, this wouldn't be much of a problem if there was a speaker in the help-desk office, but I don't there is. The speakers (loud for emergency use only, btw) will emit an annoying dial tone, followed by the warbling tone, like a phone left off-hook -- which is what it actually is. Went for 15 minutes straight in August.

Dial tones were invented to let the public know there phone was all right. None of Master Chun's "Blissful silence" here. A lot of places overseas don't have a tone. They know something's wrong when they hear noise.

Dan (hating reporters AND dial tones)