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From: Dan_Jacobson@att.com
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Subject: Re: How Do I Tell When ...
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On 30 Jan 91 06:25:10 GMT, zazula@uazhe0.physics.arizona.edu wrote:

Z>  ... a phone in another part of the house has been picked up?  I 
Z>  want to do this via the phone line in my room.

Easy: get the cheapest $2 phone you can find, and turn its ringer
switch "on".  Voila, you can hear all kinds of activity, from just the
other phone being picked up, to the whole conversation -- all without
taking your phone "off hook".  Just don't have your ear to the phone
when it rings.  [Disclaimer: not all cheap phones do all this].


Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM  Naperville IL USA  +1 708 979 6364