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Graham J
Mar 15, 2022, 7:24:26 AM3/15/22
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People send texts to my landline. The phone rings, showing its own
number as the caller, and when I answer a synthetic voice reads the text
to me.
I find this very inconvenient.
Is there any way I can configure my landline phone to reject such
messages?
If this is possible, what would the sender see?
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Graham J
number as the caller, and when I answer a synthetic voice reads the text
to me.
I find this very inconvenient.
Is there any way I can configure my landline phone to reject such
messages?
If this is possible, what would the sender see?
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Graham J
Allan
Mar 15, 2022, 7:38:59 AM3/15/22
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Andy Burns
Mar 15, 2022, 7:45:08 AM3/15/22
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Graham J wrote:
> People send texts to my landline. The phone rings, showing its own number as
> the caller, and when I answer a synthetic voice reads the text to me.
>
> I find this very inconvenient.
>
> Is there any way I can configure my landline phone to reject such messages?
call 0800 587 5252
> People send texts to my landline. The phone rings, showing its own number as
> the caller, and when I answer a synthetic voice reads the text to me.
>
> I find this very inconvenient.
>
> Is there any way I can configure my landline phone to reject such messages?
follow the IVR, used to be option 1, 5
Jeff Gaines
Mar 15, 2022, 8:08:37 AM3/15/22
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range.
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Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who do binary and those
who don't.
Graham J
Mar 15, 2022, 1:51:46 PM3/15/22
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Does anybody knwo what the sender sees now I have disbled the text facility
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Graham J
Graham J
Mar 15, 2022, 1:52:09 PM3/15/22
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Graham J
Tim+
Mar 15, 2022, 2:58:36 PM3/15/22
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text messages.
Tim
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Pamela
Mar 15, 2022, 3:42:21 PM3/15/22
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through?
MikeS
Mar 15, 2022, 5:26:16 PM3/15/22
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mobile (or somebody else's) and see what happens.
Ken
Mar 16, 2022, 3:50:42 AM3/16/22
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be the same as any other text sent to a valid destination that failed
to be delivered.
An alternative approach is to have a handset capable of receiving
texts. If you send a text from it the handset will be registered for
text then messages would arrive and be displayed as text.
>Tim
Tim+
Mar 16, 2022, 4:02:58 AM3/16/22
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Ken <k...@birchanger.com> wrote:
> On 15 Mar 2022 18:58:33 GMT, Tim+ <tim.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Graham J <nob...@nowhere.co.uk> wrote:
>>> Allan wrote:
>>>> On 15/03/2022 11:22, Graham J wrote:
>>>>> People send texts to my landline. The phone rings, showing its own
>>>>> number as the caller, and when I answer a synthetic voice reads the
>>>>> text to me.
>>>>>
>>>>> I find this very inconvenient.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there any way I can configure my landline phone to reject such
>>>>> messages?
>>>>>
>>>>> If this is possible, what would the sender see?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps
>>>> https://community.bt.com/t5/Home-phone-including-Digital/How-to-disable-BT-Text-on-my-landline/td-p/2093796
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Does anybody knwo what the sender sees now I have disbled the text facility
>>>
>>
>> Pretty sure they get a recorded voice saying that the number doesn’t accept
>> text messages.
>>
> It's a text, so they won't hear any voice. I think the outcome would
> be the same as any other text sent to a valid destination that failed
> to be delivered.
You’re right. I misremembered. Doesn’t seem to work on my line now but my
> On 15 Mar 2022 18:58:33 GMT, Tim+ <tim.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Graham J <nob...@nowhere.co.uk> wrote:
>>> Allan wrote:
>>>> On 15/03/2022 11:22, Graham J wrote:
>>>>> People send texts to my landline. The phone rings, showing its own
>>>>> number as the caller, and when I answer a synthetic voice reads the
>>>>> text to me.
>>>>>
>>>>> I find this very inconvenient.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there any way I can configure my landline phone to reject such
>>>>> messages?
>>>>>
>>>>> If this is possible, what would the sender see?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps
>>>> https://community.bt.com/t5/Home-phone-including-Digital/How-to-disable-BT-Text-on-my-landline/td-p/2093796
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Does anybody knwo what the sender sees now I have disbled the text facility
>>>
>>
>> Pretty sure they get a recorded voice saying that the number doesn’t accept
>> text messages.
>>
> It's a text, so they won't hear any voice. I think the outcome would
> be the same as any other text sent to a valid destination that failed
> to be delivered.
phone service is from Zen now.
Davey
Mar 16, 2022, 4:52:55 AM3/16/22
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On 16 Mar 2022 08:02:55 GMT
If you call Zen and ask them about this, I will be interested in their
response, as I have the same experience as you.
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Davey.
response, as I have the same experience as you.
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Davey.
Tim+
Mar 16, 2022, 5:11:15 AM3/16/22
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Davey
Mar 16, 2022, 10:16:20 AM3/16/22
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On 16 Mar 2022 09:11:12 GMT
Thanks. Up to now, I have just listened to the messages, and if I have
been able to understand them, ignored them anyway, as they seem
irrelevant or duplicate an e-mail. Thankfully it is a very rare
occurrence.
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Davey.
been able to understand them, ignored them anyway, as they seem
irrelevant or duplicate an e-mail. Thankfully it is a very rare
occurrence.
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Davey.
Graham J
Mar 16, 2022, 11:58:17 AM3/16/22
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Davey wrote:
[snip]
>
> Thanks. Up to now, I have just listened to the messages, and if I have
> been able to understand them, ignored them anyway, as they seem
> irrelevant or duplicate an e-mail. Thankfully it is a very rare
> occurrence.
OP here.
Having disable text receiving on the landline, I tried sending it a text
from my mobile - no error message on mobile having waited 5 minutes.
I will report back if there is any message about non-delivery.
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Graham J
[snip]
>
> Thanks. Up to now, I have just listened to the messages, and if I have
> been able to understand them, ignored them anyway, as they seem
> irrelevant or duplicate an e-mail. Thankfully it is a very rare
> occurrence.
Having disable text receiving on the landline, I tried sending it a text
from my mobile - no error message on mobile having waited 5 minutes.
I will report back if there is any message about non-delivery.
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Graham J
MB
Mar 20, 2022, 6:51:12 PM3/20/22
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On 15/03/2022 12:08, Jeff Gaines wrote:
> Get a decent landline 'phone that treats them as texts? Gigaset do a good
> range.
The BT DECT phones send and receive texts but I found the service
> Get a decent landline 'phone that treats them as texts? Gigaset do a good
> range.
unreliable so not longer use it.
Graham J
Mar 21, 2022, 4:29:36 AM3/21/22
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the text.
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Graham J
Tim+
Mar 21, 2022, 6:18:56 AM3/21/22
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blocked SMSs to my landline, when I tested it I got a message bouncing back
saying that the number didn’t accept SMSs. This was several years ago
though.
Davey
Mar 21, 2022, 11:26:30 AM3/21/22
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On 21 Mar 2022 10:18:53 GMT
That's probably an "improvement" somebody thought would be a good idea.
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Davey.
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Davey.
Bill Borland
Feb 5, 2024, 10:07:20 AM2/5/24
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I have seen nothing on either uk.telecom or uk.telecom.broadband for
about a week (my other newsgroups are working normally - all from
Eternal September) - are these groups dead or is something wrong at my
end?
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Bill Borland
about a week (my other newsgroups are working normally - all from
Eternal September) - are these groups dead or is something wrong at my
end?
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Bill Borland
Andy Burns
Feb 5, 2024, 10:31:53 AM2/5/24
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Peter Johnson
Feb 5, 2024, 12:18:40 PM2/5/24
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On Mon, 5 Feb 2024 15:06:51 +0000, Bill Borland <bill....@gmail.com>
wrote:
No one's got anything useful to say.
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