Calling your mother every day at 9 o'clock and being called by your son every day at 9 o'clock will become very tiresome and annoying on the long run. For the caller it is a duty, which may be impossible to accomplish given personal conditions and schedule; for the callee, it can lead to a debt of gratitude knowing that every single time there's somebody over there doing the check. IMHO calls to one's mother should not be those of type alarm call, i.e. call personally if you've got something to say.

There's enough concern visible by the OP in wanting to implement such a dead-man-button, and I'd guess that it is based on mutual consent, otherwise it just doesn't make sense: then it would be better to just delegate the job to the other number - which might have been discussed also, but have turned out as not feasible.

perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'

In reply to Re^2: using Skype by shmem
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