Re: [LINK] Fwd: No battery backup

2015-03-02 Thread Tom Worthington
On 01/03/15 19:41, Jan Whitaker wrote: > I've told her she shouldn't have to pay ... NBN have 15 pages of "Optional Battery Backup Informed Consent Guidelines": http://www.nbnco.com.au/content/dam/nbnco/documents/fibre-premises-equipment-obb-informed-consent-guidelines-checklist-23-october-2013

Re: [LINK] Fwd: No battery backup

2015-03-02 Thread Jim Birch
Tom Worthington wrote: For the phone to work, as well as this battery you need a line powered > old fashioned phone, or a cordless phone which has a backup battery in > the base station (a few do), or a UPS. > Or a mobile phone... Jim ___ Link mailing

Re: [LINK] Fwd: No battery backup

2015-03-02 Thread JanW
At 08:53 AM 3/03/2015, Tom Worthington wrote: >For the phone to work, as well as this battery you need a line powered >old fashioned phone, or a cordless phone which has a backup battery in >the base station (a few do), or a UPS. She has the analog phones. That's what she had a separate install

[LINK] Buying a dot-word domain address

2015-03-02 Thread Stephen Loosley
Want one of the new dot-word domain web addresses? Eg, www.good.care or www.fashion.bargains or www.merry.christmas AlpNames, an online domain registrar based in Gibraltar, is having a sale. Although it may be better to buy a domain from https://domains.google.com (in terms of search results?

Re: [LINK] Buying a dot-word domain address

2015-03-02 Thread Brendan
On 03/03/15 13:35, Stephen Loosley wrote: > Want one of the new dot-word domain web addresses? > > Eg, www.good.care or www.fashion.bargains or www.merry.christmas > [] It's interesting that the list is of English words. Will this be a form of balkanisation of the Internet I wonder?

Re: [LINK] Buying a dot-word domain address

2015-03-02 Thread Jeremy Visser
On 03/03/15 14:35, Brendan wrote: > It's interesting that the list is of English words. Will this be a > form of balkanisation of the Internet I wonder? There are plenty of non–English and non–Latin gTLDs: ___

Re: [LINK] Buying a dot-word domain address

2015-03-02 Thread Christopher Vance
Not entirely English - I saw some Spanish and German also. On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Brendan wrote: > On 03/03/15 13:35, Stephen Loosley wrote: > > Want one of the new dot-word domain web addresses? > > > > Eg, www.good.care or www.fashion.bargains or www.merry.christmas > > > [] > > It's

[LINK] Update on friend's battery situation

2015-03-02 Thread Jan Whitaker
Like so many things, it appears to be who you talk to and what they happen to know at the time. >Yesterday, I checked at another neighbours place - they have connected to nbn >with Optus, and they have the same boxes as I do, and don't have battery >backup. > >Went to Telstra shop at Parkmore

Re: [LINK] Buying a dot-word domain address

2015-03-02 Thread Jim Birch
It will soon be impossible to tell the difference between a website and punctuation error. :( Jim ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] Buying a dot-word domain address

2015-03-02 Thread Christopher Vance
It the domain name is in some script you don't read, you may not even know which characters are punctuation. There are domain names in at least Cyrillic, Chinese, and Arabic. Not sure what others. On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Jim Birch wrote: > It will soon be impossible to tell the differen