Off-topic informational anti-spam anecdotal

I've not met that, although I have, come to think of it, met "Octothorpe" (I think it was in "Understanding Telephone Electronics"). Ironically, the New Scientist article about digital exchanges (1981?) that called it "hatch" printed it as a square... (FWIW, "-thorpe" is often found as a placename element in the Danelaw - parts of England officially occupied by Vikings before the Norman conquest - and it means village, equivalent to German "Dorf".) You're in danger of making the same mistake as Sam. Remember the pulses only go to my counter chip, not to the exchange, so the pause after letting go of the dial is not essential. That said, it is useful if your finger is shaking as you dial... My idea was to have a moveable finger stop like on some smaller dials. This would normally sit quite close to the 1 position, leaving room for * and # after the zero, but when you dialled against it it would be pushed to its conventional rest position. Philip. PS I'm off on holiday for a week. I won't (intentionally) set the list to Postpone, but I probably won't read all the messages...