Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!lll-winken!uunet!wugate!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: UCHUCK@unc.bitnet (Chuck Bennett (919)966-1134) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Answering Machine Interrupter Message-ID: Date: 24 Jul 89 15:07:00 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 24 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 254, message 3 of 6 > From: "Glen M. Marianko" > Subject: Answering Machine Interrupter > Date: 21 Jul 89 17:52:01 GMT > Organization: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY > Age old answering machine problem: forget to turn off answering machine > when you get home, phone rings, answering machine picks up and you > pick up. You scream to the person on the line to hold on while you > run to shut the &#*$% thing off. > Some companies have added a nifty feature to answering machines which > will kill the machine if an extension picks up. Anyone hear of any > such add-on gizmo to go in-line with the answering machine and the > telco jack? Seems doable... Such a device is available through the Joan Cook catalog. Sorry I don't have the address but 800 information has 800-327-3799 as their number. The device looks like a 1 to 2 RJ-11 adapter and has a red and a green LED on top. One plugs it into the jack, the answering machine into one of the outputs and the phone into the other output(not really necessary). Picking up any phone on the line will shut off the answering machine. The cost is about $15. I love mine. Chuck Bennett