eli@pws.bull.com (Steve Elias) (06/12/90)
John, why not just unplug your ringer at night and leave an answering machine or voice mail online? I know that there's always the possibility of those feared "emergency" calls late at night, but I get so many wrong numbers (at *all* hours), that I usually leave my home phone forwarded to voice mail. I screen calls almost all the time with this system. It works well because I can receive incoming messages even when I'm on another call. And I sleep much better at night, knowing that the wrong number bozos (and other obnoxious late night callers) can only give me one short ring and that they get a machine instead of sleepy me answering the phone. /eli