Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!apple!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: miket@brspyr1.brs.com (Mike Trout) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Answering Machine Interrupter Message-ID: Date: 25 Jul 89 19:02:01 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: BRS Info Technologies, Latham NY Lines: 22 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 255, message 5 of 10 In article , glen@aecom.yu.edu (Glen M. Marianko) writes: > 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. I wasn't aware that my machine was anything special, but I NEVER turn it off, even when I'm home. It's a Panasonic (I can supply the model number if anybody's interested) and has adjustable two- or four-ring pickup. I keep it set on four rings (which really works out to almost five), and as long as I pick up the receiver before then, the machine doesn't kick in. Works no matter which extension I pick up (I have four active phones, plus many more jacks). Do I have a unique answering machine, or am I misunderstanding the problem? -- NSA food: Iran sells Nicaraguan drugs to White House through CIA, SOD & NRO. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Michael Trout (miket@brspyr1)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BRS Information Technologies, 1200 Rt. 7, Latham, N.Y. 12110 (518) 783-1161 "God forbid we should ever be 20 years without...a rebellion." Thomas Jefferson