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From: johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine)
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Subject: Re: I Take Issue With Moderator Buying Radio Shack Phones
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Date: 28 Mar 91 17:41:59 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 252, Message 4 of 11

In article <telecom11.243.7@eecs.nwu.edu> you write:

> Several posters have referred to some modern residential telephones,
> manufactured by AT&T and other companies, as "lightweight".
> [Some vendors weight phones with heavy pieces of metal.]

I like heavy telephones because they don't fall off the table when you
stretch out the cord.  It doesn't really matter whether the weight is
in active or inactive parts of the phone.

Regards,


John Levine, johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us, {spdcc|ima|world}!iecc!johnl