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jgostin@eternal.chi.il.us (Jeff Gostin) writes:

> russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz) writes:
> 
>> the phone company may not appreciate the line actually being off-hook.
>
>      As an aside, who the hell cares WHAT Ma Bell thinks... All they do is
> rape you for the monthly bill (as anyone in Illinois can tell you). If I

and they have the option of cutting off your line any time they feel you've
not complied with your agreement.

> want to keep my phone off the hook for 5 minutes, it's my line, and to

well, no.  it's not your line.

> hell with Ma Bell if she don't like it! :-)

(I see the smiley)

for five minutes, I can't foresee a problem (realistically).  for longer
periods of, say, a half-hour and up, I can easily imagine some fabled
network trouble indicator light coming on, and no one being pleased that
it was just you wanting to give the world a busy signal.

I don't know if these things really exist or not, myself.

again, just ignoring the rings hurts no one, unless your users are clueless
to the point of no return.  even then, if they leave, you're just raising
the average IQ of your callers...
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Russell Schulz  russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca  ersys!rschulz  Shad 86c