PE> BTW Bob, I presume you dropped carrier because your mother picked up
PE> the phone.

BL> Yair... sorry.

PE> How can the few minutes that you're online each day be the time when
PE> she decides to make a call? Give her some email to read for crying
PE> out loud.

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.

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

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