vgetty - off hook after 1st ring

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	Hello,

	I wonder why the vgetty refuses to pick up the phone before
the second RING. Is this for the CallerID service? In our phone network
there is no CallerID and I want to have my voice application as fast
as it can be. I need to make vgetty to answer the call after the
first RING. I need to answer ~2000 of phone calls on the six modems,
it means ~333 calls per modem in 1 or 2 days.
I want this system to have maximum throughput
and dont want the caller to wait for another ring.

	Of course, I can edit the appropriate place at the end
of voice/vgetty/rings.c file. But I wonder whether there is anybody
else with the same problem. I think it would be wise to turn the
overwriting *rings_wanted to 2 into a warning message, which will
tell that you vgetty will not be able to receive the CallerID.
I don't like programs that tries to be more clever than they can be
- if I write "rings 1" to the config file, it means _I_ want the call
to be answered after the first ring.

	Or is there any reason for that other than the CallerID service?

Sincerely,

-Yenya

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