I can. I will and post back. I'm using a CO line port on an NEC DS1000 phone system for this. If you plug a POTS line into this on the phone system, it operates as if it were a regular phone when you select that line on one of the attached phones. I will try and regular telephone tho as I said and post back.
As far as the Call history, when I dial without the * in front, there is no call history logged at all. It's as if I did nothing.