Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Rich Zellich Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Proposal: An Answering Machine I'd Love to Have Message-ID: <5156@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 14 Mar 90 14:14:49 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 14 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 172, Message 7 of 10 Remember also though, that the "toll saver" feature is there for another purpose as well. Allowing more rings on the first pickup gives you, the owner, time to get to the phone to pick it up before the machine grabs the incoming call. After the machine gets the first one, however, it makes the assumption that you aren't home and answers more quickly on subsequent calls so the caller doesn't have to wait listening to rings any longer than necessary - theoretically keeping some people from hanging up too soon. The above, of course, so you can leave the machine on all the time and not have to worry about remembering to turn it on every time you leave.