Mark Lloyd wrote in news:SECaE.137768$4r2.30679
@fx25.fr7:

On 2/18/19 7:35 AM, nospam wrote:

[snip]

nothing bad occurred with an additional phones, other than the phone
company wasn't being paid for extensions.

Other than if too many are in use at the same time, there won't be
enough power to make them work. I've heard of that problem on party
lines, where you can't hear because too many people are listening.


We only had four families on our party line, so that never became a
problem. Calling another party on the same line was kind of a pain though.
After the town switched to dial it wan't a problem any longer.