On 12/21/2015 10:43 PM, Don Y wrote:
On 12/21/2015 9:05 PM, Mark Lloyd wrote:
[snip]

I would never phone home to see if I had messages.

My home phone (cable) now allows forwarding calls to a cell phone.
Most of the
time, I wouldn't do that (since it would forward all the junk calls).
I'll do
it if I'm expecting an important call.

Years ago, I had some software to implement an answering machine
with a PC (and modem). When a call arrived, it could be configured
to email a notification *or* WAV file of the incoming message to
an email address.

Hopefully ignoring those unknown callers that left a "blank" message
(just enough noise to trigger the machine, but no meaningful content).

This was handy when I was traveling as I didn't
have to tell people I was traveling, where I was, etc. And, didn't
have to keep checking the machine to see if anyone had called
since the last check!



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3 days until the winter celebration (Friday December 25, 2015 12:00:00
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Mark Lloyd
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"To depend upon God is like holding on to the tail-end of nothing."
[Lemuel K. Washburn, _Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays_,
1911]