Subj : Re: nuts was: logs and To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Mon Jul 01 2019 16:04:40 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 22-Jun-2019 11:37 <=- BM> Ah! There you are! Must have been a clockage in the communication BM> links somewhere as has been rather quiet around here. As you saw further in that pile, it was because I was away from home with no access, just working away at messages as I could... but couldn't upload until I got myself back home... ;) I'm hoping to get these answered before I leave again, but things have been somewhat busy, so I've not been able to send every night... I'll take stuff with me again when I leave again, so I'll just keep whittling away at it... with gaps of transmission, of course... 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 only NB>> 50 slots, one of which is needed to add a leading 1 for a long-distance NB>> callback.... and that's only with the cordless set... the rest don't NB>> have any directory.... BM> So 49 slots. depending on the number of phones one has can become BM> quite a big job to enter all that data in! Yup, 49 slots... but the directory is stored in the main base, not the handsets, so it's just the one directory, which either of the handsets can access... and that's for the landline... :) The other, wired-in, extensions don't have their own directories, nor access to the cordless base's directory... We mostly do use the cordless handsets, though... Before we had our phone number stolen and then returned, I had also set up a 30-number speed dial with the phone company.... that got erased in the fracas, and I have yet to re-set that one up... a lot of effort, and I've not had any really good time available to set aside to do that yet... 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... :) BM> Yes; the NCID project was mainly held up because the telephone or BM> power line needed to be moved (probably power because there's antenna BM> and networking feeds in the same run), but that delayed because of the BM> coldness in the Storage Area, then the other hiring of a electrician BM> to do a few other projects was never gotten to..... Now it will be the heat of the Storage Area... and getting to hiring of the electrician.... 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 either... NB>> at least in some areas... ;) And switching from discrete buttons to NB>> a push the button multiple times to scroll through would be different, NB>> but more like looking something up in a hard-copy phone directory, NB>> just not having to input the number after finding it... :) BM> I'll also admit to not always liking change -- sometimes because the BM> new way has drawbacks, sometimes just no real reason to change. As for BM> my Mother's phone and equipment, some of it may be sentimental: Dad did BM> it or had something to do with it. Not a bad reason not to change. Could be... You might be able to set her up a system that still incorporates that handset.... but adds in some Caller ID phones, with a built-in directory, so that she could get used to it bit by bit... :) I'm sure that it would require some ahead of time discussion with her as to why and how it could make her life easier... one doesn't have to answer the precise phone handset that is telling her who is calling, if she decides she wants to talk to them.... ttyl neb .... When a clock is hungry, it goes back four seconds. --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .