In message , Andrew Gabriel
writes
In article ,
Lem writes:

What I have seen several times is damage caused by a surge
induced by lightning on a phone line.

Been there, done that :-(

Of course, the mains
surge protector will do nothing to protect against that.

So personally I don't bother using a surge protector on my PC.

Am I being too complacent?

Not in my opinion.
If I saw something at less than rip-off prices for protecting
against surge on phone line, I might consider that.

Many of the mains surge protectors also include connectors for looping
a phone line through them.

--
Richard Herring