Answerphone

[ImLostAgain]

Is it possible to remove an answerphone message from a landline telephone so it will just ring continuously until the caller hangs up?

[janbee]

On my machine, if I just switch it off, the phone will keep on ringing.

[ImLostAgain]

I should say that this is not my phone I'm talking about. That said, how does one turn it off?

[BlackadderV]

There should be a button on the base which says Answer On/Off. Press that.

[ImLostAgain]

Cheers, I'm going around there in about an hour so I'll have a look.

[woofgang]

The other thing that you can do is just unplug the phone from the socket. I have tried this and what happens is that the line just rings and rings, ie caller hears ring tone but there is no sound in the house. I am not certain that this still works but I have done it in the past (around 10 years ago)

[woofgang]

PS eventually (3 minutes? 5 minutes?) the line disconnects the caller if no one answers the phone.

[BlackadderV]

It depends on the reason for wanting the answerphone off. It may be that the person wants to answer the phone but is unable to reach it in time.

[ImLostAgain]

Ok, thanks all.
Reason being, apparently, friend apparently never uses phone (is that poss?) but needs line for puter.
There is no button on the base for switching it off but I googled the model number and we seemed to achieved what was wanted. If not we will, as woolfgang says, just unplug it.
Watch this space!!
Once again, thanks all.