In a message to Bob about "mail", Rod said:

BL> I think she does it on purpose, but 87-year-old mothers are worse
BL> than kids - you can't hit them or you break bones. It's like you say,
BL> I'm on for 1 minute in 24 hours, and the odds are 1000:1 in my
BL> favour. Maybe if I just break her arm, she'll stop.

RS> There is a pretty simple mod you can do which goes between the phone
RS> and the phone line which prevents the phone picking the line up.
RS> There is a commercial Austel approved one too, outrageously priced
RS> for what it is tho, $40 from memory.

Yeah, I was goiong to suggest a black box I saw in a mag years ago that
did that, but thought he'd probably poo poo it because it came out of a
mag... ;)

'tnt, Amfony.                                
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