Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!att!bellcore!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!usc!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: pbseps!gallaher@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Gary Gallaher) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Automated Attendents/Answering Machines Message-ID: Date: 20 Sep 89 15:37:36 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: gallaher@pbseps.PacBell.COM (Gary Gallaher) Organization: Pacific Bell Separations, San Francisco, CA Lines: 15 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 391, message 5 of 9 In article portal!cup.portal.com!JDurand@apple.com writes: >.... I design voice-mail and automated attendent hardware, but >I use a standard answering machine to screen my calls so that I can >pick up any call that sounds important. Maybe I should add an option >like this to the voice-mail systems we design? Any ideas? >Jerry Durand, Durand Interstellar, Inc., sun!cup.portal.com!jdurand Sounds like a great feature, Jerry. I know a lot of people who use their answering machines that way, so there must be a "market".-- Gary G. Gallaher, 180 New Montgomery St., Room 602, San Francisco, CA, 94105 1 415 545-7590 || UUCP {ames,pyramid,sun,att,bellcore}!pacbell!pbseps!gary