Telecom has a problem with my landline. To wit: whenever it rains or the temperature drops precipately, it cuts out the connection from me to them. Last Wednesday, for example, when I arrived home from town and picked up the receiver, I got no dial tone.
However, when I ring 125 directly, it connects immediately and dial-tone is there. And when I get around to contacting them - during the day, usually when it's dry - they cannot reproduce the problem. A friend in town suggests that it's either the line itself open like a sieve, or the local junction box is leaking. Does anyone have any ideas why Telecom cannot reproduce the problem - apart from careful maintenance of their own lines and non-maintenance of everybody else's? I'm getting sick of having the weather provide me with the switchboard-in-the-sky to /dev/null/. Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Are couch potatoes good to eat? ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
