[conspire] POTS - acronym overload ... & overload ...

[Nick Moffitt]

On 24Sep2020 01:15am (-0700), Michael Paoli wrote:
> Or POTS is ...
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_old_telephone_service
> Yes, I too have POTS ... but I have the telephony kind.

We call it PSTN service here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_switched_telephone_network
Kind of vestigial meaning now, but when it comes up it's usually in an unambiguous context.