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"Rod's Peed" <rods_peed@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> Rod Speed wrote:
>> Rod's Peed <rods_peed@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>>
>>>Rod Speed wrote
>>
>>
>>>>>just tell them to take you off the contact list. i do it all the time
>>>>>now. i haven't had a telemarketer on the same campaign call
>>>>>back again. as for the whistle trick, how would you like it if
>>>>>you answered the phone and only got an ear splitting whistle
>>>>>blast - along with some serious hearing damage ?
>>
>>
>>>>That last cant happen, the phone system prevents that.
>>
>>
>>>Actually it isn't the phone "system" that prevents
>>>it, it is the clipping diode in the handset.
>>
>>
>> Wrong. As always. The line interface does the clipping, as its being 
>> digitised.
>>
>> What's done in the handset is just to prevent
>> too much crosstalk in the street cable.

> Absolute bullshit.

We'll see...

> The clipping diodes are to prevent an overload, an audio overload,

Most modern handsets dont even have any, fuckwit.

> and work with or without the handset being connected to "the system".
> They have been there long before digitisation was even a concept.

Separate issue entirely to what stops any hearing damage NOW, fuckwit.