Check what I posted above and see if you have that sound.
Classic phone tools? I don't know; the coffee isn't ready yet and my eyes aren't reading fine print yet this morning. What are
you doing up already anyway? ;-)
It didn't chime when it lit up for your post; it just clicked.
I think a lot of people are not actually opening the pager at all from that link because they have something blocking popups.... I use the pager all the time, and I couldn't get it to open from that link because my IE stopped the popup. So it blocked the pager from opening, and reverted to My Comments.
Those of you having trouble..... click this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/notify?spoken=no and leave that window open... I make it very small in the corner.. when a new post or mail comes in, it should turn blue and make a chiming noise....
The feature is that it automatically refreshes a couple times a minute.... notifying of new replies or mail even if you are up walking around or attempting to get a life....