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From: tad@ssc.UUCP (Tad Cook)
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Subject: Re: Answering Machine Messages and SIT
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Date: 23 Sep 90 22:12:45 GMT
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In article <12335@accuvax.nwu.edu>, visix!amanda@uunet.uu.net (Amanda
Walker) writes:

> I've been wondering how useful (or conversely, confusing) it would be
> to have an answering machine message which started with an SIT and
> then went on into a "normal" announcement.  

John Higdon claimed in a telephone coversation earlier this year that
recording SIT on an answering machine outgoing message tape will fool
many COCOTs into refunding money.  He claimed that this was very
useful on a personal voice mailbox, as one could walk up to any COCOT
and retrieve messages for free!


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