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From: korenek@ficc.ferranti.com (Gary Korenek)
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Subject: Re: Answering Machine Messages
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Date: 13 Sep 90 18:25:47 GMT
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Every great once-in-a-while, I make a call, and the phone on the other
end is answered with "Hello".

I say "Hello, this Gary, (etc.).  Then I notice that there was no
pause on the other end while I said "Hello".  What I got was an
answering machine whose owner undeliberately left a OGM that fooled
me.

This happens to me maybe once or twice a year.  When it does, for a
brief moment I feel like a clod.  So on my own OGM, the first word is
something other than "Hello".  IMHO this is being cordial to whoever
is calling me.

When I first got my machine and recorded an OGM, my wife (girl friend
at the time) said my OGM was so long that she fell asleep when
listening to it.  I learned from that to make OGM's clear, short, and
sweet.  I think it's appreciated.


Gary Korenek (korenek@ficc.ferranti.com)
Ferranti  International  Controls  Corp.
Sugar Land, Texas          (713)274-5357