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From: motcid!hamilton@uunet.uu.net (Danial Hamilton)
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contact!ndallen@uunet.uu.net (Nigel Allen) writes:

>I think Alexander Graham Bell once proposed "hoy-hoy" as the
>appropriate way to answer the phone.

I believe the Japanese have a greeting that is reserved for use on the
telephone.  Something like "moshi moshi".