Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 01:49:21 +0000 > Peter Humphrey <pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote: > > > On Thursday 01 November 2012 00:07:36 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > > that phone is the master base station for the other two slave > > > handsets. Unplug it, and the house phone stops working; this will > > > upset missus/daughter mightily as they can't speak to granny 10 time > > > a day anymore. [ don't ask, please don't ask :-) ] > > > > Ah, sympathy duly offered. > > > > Surely you could negotiate a period of a few minutes in which to > > conduct a test? At least then you'd know. > > > > I'd need a full day to do a reasonable test. > > I suppose I could just issue a decree: > > "Nov 3 shall now be known as No Phone Day"!
Why not just forward the line to a cell phone for a few hours? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com