Jerry Schwartz wrote in a message to Bayani P. Custodio:
BPC> You try and tell that to the people at BELL. That is why I want the
BPC> option 
 JS> There's no need to talk to the phone company; a sysop should
 JS> not have an answering machine (or equivalent) picking up a
 JS> mailer line in a way which interferes with data calls.
That is not the problem... the problem is with BELL installing a computerized 
answering service. if it detects 4 or more rings, it automatically kicks in. 
It's their advertisement for their call answering service sort of thing. It 
is not a piece of hardware a user installs, but one BELL automatically puts 
through their computer system.
It's also not necessarily with other FIDO NODES I'm concerned with but just 
simple file transfers to non-bbs folks waiting for something to come their 
way from my system.
As I said in previous posts, my ZyXEL still has problems picking up a busy 
signal so that may be the problem.
See yah later
Bayani
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