abm88@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Morley A.B.) (01/16/91)
Earlier there was a discussion on recording calls. I don't know about the legality but as far as I know all answering machines which have a call recording facility put bleeps in every fifteen seconds. In the case of mine (a Panasonic) call recording doesn't work until (in the words of the instruction manual) "it is enabled by pressing PROG then # 2 2". Then it works with a bleep. As most of the setting-up commands begin with a hash (eg # 4 n to set number of rings before answer) I tried PROG # 2 1 and it now records without a bleep. Prersumably it is cheaper for them to print a different manual specially for the UK rather than having to produce a different product for the UK and elsewhere where silent recording is permitted. Andrew Morley -- --- abm88@uk.ac.soton.ecs