Cordless Phone Answerers - Unfair Business Practices?

Check out the Uniden TRU 8885. It has a feature called "Call Screen" that does what you want. You can download the manual from their web site to see how the feature works.

After having it for about a month, there are only a couple of things I don't like about this product. The first is that the answering machine only has 12 minutes capacity. The other is that, unlike my old AT&T system, it displays the Caller-ID name as sent by the phone company even if there is an entry in the phone's phonebook. That feature was handy when someone called from a cell phone of a company (like Verizon) that doesn't send a useful caller name.

Thanx. Will check out. buksi

I bought the UNIDEN TRU8885-2 model and it fits the bill. I have had it for two days only. I can understand your enthusiasm for the set. The call screening is vastly superior to the Caller ID feature -- without even considering the "cost" (free as opposed to the CID service) Didn't David Packard write a book about the milking of the American public?

Thank You Damond Brownd, thank you. George