At 03:47 PM 12/18/97 EST5EDT, you wrote: >> One should be careful about the type of load presented to a >> telephone line pair. The equipment at the switch to which your phone is >> connected may range in complexity from rotary steppers and mechanical relays > >So basically, your saying that there is no practical, recommended way >to cut off ringing from one extension on the inside wiring? I >thought this might be the case, and I would have to set up the ring >blocker on the enterence point to the house. Any other suggestions? > > Nah, even in the bad old days when Ma Bell made a marine drill sargent like like a cub scout den mother, we used to disable a ringer by taking the case off the phone, loosening the terminals and pulling a ringer wire off. The phone then "disappeared" from the scans. ;-) Wynn