Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Donald E. Kimberlin <0004133373@mcimail.com> Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Answering Machine Messages Message-ID: <12491@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 23 Sep 90 21:53:36 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: Telecommunications Network Architects, Safety Harbor, FL Lines: 23 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 671, Message 7 of 12 The story so far (in Digest v10, Iss648>: >mpd@anomaly.sbs.com (Michael P. Deignan) writes: >>...l record the " The number you have >reached ... >>has been disconnected..." which I save for later use. Then, when >>the time comes ... I leave >the "special" OGM tape in. David responded: >My housemate did this once, and the confusion it caused among >callers, and their queries to the phone company, ultimately caused NJ >Bell to call him and tell him, "Hey, just cut it out, OK." Gee, I'm surprised some minion of NJ Bell didn't swoop down with intimidation that threatened disconnecting the phone for real, because you were "violating the LAW" by transmitting a false message! (They really would be right, you know.) Anyhow, must have been one of the "new heads" in the business. Refreshing in that regard. Maybe we are making some progress toward humanized relations in the public telecommunications sector.