Subj : Re: nuts was: logs and To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Sat Jun 15 2019 13:05:40 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 10-Jun-2019 08:53 <=- BM>> Yes, it would be possible to whitelist numbers, possible a range of BM>> numbers. Not sure about the name portion but could probably figure BM>> something out: M.D.'s office is at the hospital and have seen it come BM>> up a few ways. NB>> In my cell phone, I merely listed all the different numbers I'd NB>> seen our PCP office use to contact us, with their name, so NB>> whenever any of those numbers calls my cell, it comes up as NB>> them... Can't do that with the landline, it would use up too much NB>> of the directory.... BM> True, plus with the landline would have to enter a directory listing BM> for each phone and some don't have that feature. Exactly... My directory each is a separate entry, and there are only 50 slots, one of which is needed to add a leading 1 for a long-distance callback.... and that's only with the cordless set... the rest don't have any directory.... BM> Do need to get my NCID project going so shows up on the Caller ID - BM> built-in or separate box. That one is a little ways down the list..... Yup, lots of other But First projects... :) BM>>> As for my Mother, surprised it has taken so long to start getting all BM>>> those spam calls - is an established number for years. When I visited BM>>> she did get a couple but not nearly as many as here. Putting Caller BM>>> ID on her telephone service would be no big deal: call in the order BM>>> done. Installing the CID boxes is an easy enough project for me; the BM>>> Big Deal would be the CID boxes themselves: she'd view them as 'messy' BM>>> and potentially a nuisance. NB>>> Upgrade her system to a set of cordless extensions all around the NB>>> house... with the Caller ID built into each of them.... If she NB>>> already has that, it will start working once the CID has been added NB>>> to her phone service... :) BM>> Installing new phones would be the easy part! She has one phone which BM>> she still uses with a 20, maybe 24, maybe more, number memory. Dad BM>> had set it up so U.S. numbers in the left column, Europe on the right. BM>> Can't use the European set because there's a new way to dial the BM>> internation prefix. I think she said I was the only one remaining on BM>> the left column. Had some problems with the phone but she refused to BM>> replace it. NB>> Ah, so you can install the new phones, but the real question is NB>> whether she'd use them once installed..... BM> More like getting the new phones approved in the first place. Just BM> doing it isn't going to work. There was a 'big stink' when the phone BM> with all the directory buttons failed -- fortunately when I got there BM> found the wall wart failed so just had to replace that. At the time BM> Dad was alive so he and I (mainly me) were looking for a replacement BM> phone with a suitable number of memory buttons -- pretty much was a BM> commercial/business level. No, my Mother isn't one for change. I can understand not wanting change... I don't adapt easily either... at least in some areas... ;) And switching from discrete buttons to a push the button multiple times to scroll through would be different... but more like looking something up in a hard-copy phone directory, just not having to input the number after finding it... :) ttyl neb .... There is no such thing as a useless piece of information. --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .