alonzo@uunet.uu.net (06/01/90)
I have a friend in Toronto, Ontario who wants to have three telephone lines in her apartment, each with its own answering machine. Two of the lines will only be answered by machine. The third is her personal line. The lines will have different answering messages. Are there any angles here with respect to lines that are answered only by machine? Can anyone suggest some good (cheap) hardware that would help to satisfy these requirements? I suppose an answering service is an option, but I expect it would be more expensive and less efficient than a machine. Does Bell offer machine-answered lines that are cheaper and do not require extra circuits to the house (i.e., you call up and retrieve messages with tone codes)? What are the appropriate rules with regard to residence vs. commercial lines? One of the lines is for a non-profit charitable organization and the other for a very small consulting business. I can no longer keep up with the volume of the group, so I would like any advice you can give me via email (uunet!microsoft!alonzo). I will summarize information of general usefulness to the net. Thanks, Alonzo Gariepy alonzo@microsoft