>>Do I really need to use TAPI just for that small task?
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>Another reason - if your local CO is anything like ours around here, we get an enormous amount of 'dead' calls. No one there. How could you differentiate between them?
Well, I don't here. So, when I'll get one, I just verify the system if all is ok. Also, I have a caller ID. So, I'll know where it is coming from.