Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!phil From: phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Panasonic speakerphone forbids alka Message-ID: <34700012@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 5 Jul 90 04:57:00 GMT References: <840@sagpd1.UUCP> Lines: 8 Nf-ID: #R:sagpd1.UUCP:840:ux1.cso.uiuc.edu:34700012:000:403 Nf-From: ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!phil Jul 4 23:57:00 1990 I've run many Alkalines all the way down into the ground, and never a one has leak. I do toss them out when done. I never leave dead batteries inside any electrical device for more than a day (it might take me that long to realize they ran down). --Phil Howard, KA9WGN-- | Individual CHOICE is fundamental to a free society | no matter what the particular issue is all about.