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<font size=3>At 02:45 PM 8/5/2003 -0700, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>> Is there any good<br>
> reason to have a land line anymore?<br><br>
All this cellphone euphoria is getting to me. Have you ever used
a<br>
cellphone for an extended period of time? They suck. You drop
calls,<br>
people can't hear you, you can't hear them. They suck. Suck,
suck,<br>
suck. And I say that as someone who has had one since 1988 and
puts<br>
about 500 minutes/month on mine. I've had 7 phones in that time,
and<br>
they all just suck.<br><br>
Give me a land-line any day.<br><br>
One thing that has helped quite a bit for telemarketing is to get<br>
Caller-ID-blocked-rejection service: if they don't give up their<br>
Caller-ID, they don't get through. Your privacy-freak friends will
take<br>
a while to get used to dialing the per-call-unblock each time they
call<br>
you, but eventually you'll get quite a bit fewer phone calls.<br><br>
/jordan</blockquote><br>
I hate using phones of any kind and find them a necessary evil.
Several times my cell phone has cut me off in the middle of conversations
I didn't want to be having anyway. Hooray for cell phones.
<br><br>
Cliff</font></body>
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