On 2018 Jul 08 15:44:56, you wrote to me:

 MV>>> Of course. When POTS was the only game in toen, there was no need tp
 MV>>> explicitly call them POTS mailers. That addendum only came after
 MV>>> POTS was the only game in town.

 ml>> that would be when ISDN came around... ISDN doesn't have a dial
 ml>> tone... dial tone is what distinguishes a POTS line from any other...

 RB> Maybe in the States, but certainly not here in Germany. I get a dial
 RB> tone on my ISDN line every time I pick up the phone.

i get that too but only in the premises side of the box the ISDN line is
connected to... on the other side, there isn't one... it is all digital...
that's the whole point... ISDN, by its nature, is digital... not analog...

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