Subj : nuts was: logs and To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Sat Jun 22 2019 11:37:00 Hi Nancy! Ah! There you are! Must have been a clockage in the communication links somewhere as has been rather quiet around here. 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. NB> Exactly... My directory each is a separate entry, and there are NB> only 50 slots, one of which is needed to add a leading 1 for a NB> long-distance callback.... and that's only with the cordless NB> set... the rest don't have any directory.... So 49 slots. depending on the number of phones one has can become quite a big job to enter all that data in! 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..... NB> Yup, lots of other But First projects... :) Yes; the NCID project was mainly held up because the telephone or power line needed to be moved (probably power because there's antenna and networking feeds in the same run), but that delayed because of the coldness in the Storage Area, then the other hiring of a electrician to do a few other projects was never gotten to..... 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. NB> I can understand not wanting change... I don't adapt easily NB> either... at least in some areas... ;) And switching from NB> discrete buttons to a push the button multiple times to scroll NB> through would be different... but more like looking something up NB> in a hard-copy phone directory, just not having to input the NB> number after finding it... :) I'll also admit to not always liking change -- sometimes because the new way has drawbacks, sometimes just no real reason to change. As for my Mother's phone and equipment, some of it may be sentimental: Dad did it or had something to do with it. Not a bad reason not to change. ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... Words are windows to the heart. --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .