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From: lars@spectrum.cmc.com (Lars Poulsen)
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Subject: Re: Speakerphones and the Courts
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Date: 11 Oct 90 17:38:46 GMT
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In v10 #715, Jeff Carroll <bcsaic!carroll@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
writes:

>>Only that anyone who has ever talked to a person using a
>>speakerphone would know immediately whether one is in use....

In article <13219@accuvax.nwu.edu> jdominey@bsga05.attmail.com writes:

>The phone on my desk ... has a speaker, but no external microphone.
>When I use the speaker, anyone in my office can hear the conversation.
>Because I still speak into the handset, the person on the other end will 
>not hear the telltale speakerphone cut-in/cut-out.

Radio Shack has a free-standing telephone amplifier that can do this.
(It has a MUTE button). We like it for that reason. I used it for a
while at the office (at my previous job) but gave up because it did
not co-exist well with our 1A2 key system.


Lars Poulsen, SMTS Software Engineer
CMC Rockwell  lars@CMC.COM