Answering machine

Gunnar Wolf is looking for a simple, no-nonsense answering machine. I suggest he picks one of these two options:

• Try finding one second-hand. I found this is surprisedly easy on yard sales and the like, because people usually want feature-rich answering machines of the kind Gunnar explicitely does not want.
• Get yourself a modem with the capability to do voice stuff (these come even in the external modem variants; I have one like that) and install mgetty-voice to turn it into an answering machine. If you really want to, you can add mgetty-fax and pppd to more interesting stuff with it...