mvm question: local operation

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 > > or, put another way, if i'm at home, and i know there are messages
 > > waiting, do i have to go to my keyboard to cause them to be played,
 > 
 > Personnaly, I either play the messages by hand with vm to the telephone
 > line, which will play it to any connected phones (after dialing a 1
 > or something to not have the dialing tone), or to the internal speaker
 > (-s), or I dial from another line, or I use the new WWW extension, or

so there's no way to coerce a modem to go off-hook other than with a ring
voltage, eh? (images of toggle switches and little hand-crank generators
come to mind... :-) it's too bad you can't program some sequence of DTMF
tones that they could listen for (while still off-hook, of course.)

oh well. although _i_ could probably get used to doing any or all of those
things command oriented things to get my messages, i think it will better
preserve household harmony if i go out and buy an answering machine. :-) :-)

paul
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 paul fox, pgf@foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma)
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