Ross Cassell wrote in a message to Marc Lewis:

 RC> I know longer have a separate physical data line for my mailer,
 RC> like I used to.. With only one data call a day, the cost of
 RC> maintaining it was no longer justifiable.

 RC> Instead I use my voice line with a distinctive Ring phone number,
 RC> used in conjunction with a piece of equipment that routes the call
 RC> to the modem if a particular ring pattern is detected.

 RC> I also have voice mail with the phone company that kicks in after 6
 RC> rings. 

There is another alternative that I know of...it's a hardware device that
"alerts" you that another call is coming in on the line....but it
times out and then the voice mail would kick in.

One other alternative would to make the echolist robot a private node.

cya,
thom
http://www.tlchost.net/echolist/ 
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