I have done this and still got the kind of response that Jim Taylor did. I had obtained the Earthlink numbers for the area I was in and felt that all was entered correctly including the 9 plus comma. I have not tried it from a hotel using my regular service provider number. I would welcome help from those of you who have been successful in doing this (not with cell phones). Jill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peggy Kern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Braillenote List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 6:49 PM Subject: Re: [Braillenote] surprising goings-on in a hotel bedroom
> To dial 9 from a hotel with the BN, you have to put a 9 and a comma in the > phone number of the service you want to call. You don't just manually dial 9. > > Peggy > > At 06:57 PM 1/2/2004 +0000, you wrote: > >New Year greetings to all from one who has rested one BrailleNote for the > >past few days. > > > >I do hope that this intriguing subject line will spare the blushes of > >Messrs. Kevin, Sean, Lew, Dan, Charles, Chris et Al, whoever he may > >be. But, gentle folk, read on, mark, and learn by my mistakes!!! > > > >I spent Christmas and New Year away from home, and took my BrailleNote > >with me to the hotel. Right, said the manager, if you dial 9 for an > >outside line, you should have no difficulty sending or receiving e-mail!!! > > > >So there I was, in my hotel bedroom, with my beloved wife, Audrey, > >BrailleNote and telephone plugged in a double-jacked wall socket. I > >picked up the receiver, and dialled 9. I then went through the usual > >procedures for checking for new e-mail. The eleven-digit number dialled > >away merrily, accompanied by an unusual background hiss. Then a phone > >started to ring within the BrailleNote itself, if you follow me. After > >about four rings, it stopped, and a garbled, totally unintelligible voice > >could be heard issuing from the BrailleNote's interior!!! > > > >I tried again, this time, for no logical reason, dialling 9 with the phone > >still on the hook. Again, I was connected, not to my service provider, > >but to the hotel switchboard. > > > >Our stay was adventurous in other ways. We were woken early on New > >Year's Day by someone telling us that we should ring our daughter, but as > >we have no children, we decided that that was a hoax call from a yob. > > > >Last night, or, to be more precise, between three and ten past four this > >morning, the hotel's washing machine was switched on at full throttle, in > >the laundry room next door to our room. > > > >The hotel tried to charge me fifteen pence (about ten cents) for the > >failed e-mail retrieval attempts, of which there were about four in all. > > > >All comments gratefully accepted. > > > >Warm regards, > > > >Jim Taylor. > > > > > > > > > > > >___ > >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > >http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.home.earthlink.net/~kernsac > MSN Messenger [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > >
