From owner-freebsd-isdn Wed May 12 1:57:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org Received: from custos.callcenter.systemhaus.net (unknown [62.152.9.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3074153CA for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 01:57:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listmail@helena.callcenter.systemhaus.net) Received: (from smap@localhost) by custos.callcenter.systemhaus.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA19408 for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 10:57:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from helena.otelo-call.de(194.233.120.14) by custos.otelo-call.de via smap (V2.1) id xma019406; Wed, 12 May 99 10:57:39 +0200 Received: (from listmail@localhost) by helena.otelo-call.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA21840 for freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 May 1999 10:57:39 +0200 (MET DST) From: Christoph Weber-Fahr Message-Id: <199905120857.KAA21840@helena.otelo-call.de> Subject: Re: irritating messages in all ttyv's In-Reply-To: from Hellmuth Michaelis at "May 12, 99 09:30:58 am" To: hm@hcs.de Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:57:01 +0200 (MET DST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hallo, > > - What's a PBX? > > Private Branch Exchange. Now he knows! Ha! :-) More localized: 'Telefonanlage'. It's a term from the Telecommunications Industry. 'Private' doesn't imply anything non-business related, but simply means customer equipment from their point of view. It's main property is that 'we do not own it'. (The whole telco terminology is riddled with this slightly strange point of view, cf the mess with 'DCE' and 'DEE') Not suprisingly the opposite thing (die 'Vermittlungsstelle') is typically not called 'Public Branch Exchange (PBX)', either :-) Regards Christoph Weber-Fahr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message