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From: CRW@icf.hrb.com (Craig R. Watkins)
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Subject: Re: A New Way to be COCOTted
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In article <13948@accuvax.nwu.edu>, john@bovine.ati.com (John Higdon)
writes:

> The moment I sense that an operator is even thinking
> "collect" I say "absolutely not" and hang up.
  ... 
> If the only choice is a
> gouge-a-matic AOS, why should I pay rather than the caller?

Murphy's view of a gouge-a-matic:

"But, sir, our gouge-a-matic automatically detected that you actually
did accept the call -- it has quite an extensive vocabulary to do just
that."

"I most certainly did not."

"But we have your response recorded here; is this your voice sir?"

<playback> "Will you accept the charges?"  "Absolutely"

Hee . . .


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