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From: Bill Berbenich <bill@eedsp.gatech.edu>
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Subject: Telecom Peeves
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Date: 10 Jul 90 21:50:52 GMT
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I was just reminded of one of my pet telecom peeves.  Ever get on the
phone with someone and have them just barely whisper instead of
speakly clearly and plainly?  I said, "would you please speak up, I
can just barely hear you."  The person's voice would get louder - I
could tell that he was speaking in a full, clear voice then and I knew
that it wasn't just a bad connection.  Anyway, after a few sentences,
ole soft-voice would slip back into the whisper.

"Please speak up?" audible, audible, whisper, "please speak up, I
cannot hear you?" audible, audible, audible, whisper... and so on
throughout the ten minute (five minutes in an audible voice)
conversation.  Aaarrrggghhhh. :-)

It wasn't even a 'confidential' matter.  Anyone else had this happen
to them?


Bill Berbenich