09 May 08 17:20, Richard Webb wrote to Roger Nelson:

 RW> Roger Nelson wrote in a message to Roy Witt:

 RW>> We don't have a home phone, unless you call the line that's answered
 RW>> by the modem my home phone. That phone # is printed in the nodelist
 RW>> every week, if I need to know what it is. Cell phones are way too
 RW>> convenient to be tied to a landline.

 RN>> Yep!  That's why I don't have a long distance carrier.

 RW> STill do here, will eventually do cell for the business, but don't
 RW> really care about that even so much, that's what voicemail's for.
 RW> WHen I'm working I'm not answering the *{at}{at}{at}# phone anyway.

Voicemail is the best thing besides total portability of cell phones. They
all, afaik, come with voicemail and free long distance these days.

 RW> WOn't do without a landline, with a plain Jane telephone connected to
 RW> it. OFtentimes even when the power burps and everything else goes to
 RW> hades your pots with a plain ol' telephone can reach out and get
 RW> emergency assistance.

So can a cell phone - while you're trying to out-run the next hurricane.

 RW> My parents were considering giving up their landline for cell only
 RW> and I talked them out of it.

Heh...their idea is the future. If I didn't want to have the landline for
Fidonet, all I would have is a cell phone. Back in the early 80s, I
thought my employer was crazy to have a mobile phone in his house. He was
ahead of his time.

                R\%/itt



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