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From: motcid!segal@uunet.uu.net (Gary Segal)
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Subject: Re: Voice Mail -- Just Say "O"
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Date: 28 Oct 90 22:42:39 GMT
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yazz@prodnet.la.locus.com (Bob Yasi) writes:

>"How dare you have a phone system that doesn't get you an operator
>when you dial O?"

At one company I worked for, there was no one other than myself to
answer my phone.  When a voice mail system was installed, it was very
usefull, allowing me to recieve calls when I was away from my desk.
However, if somebody dialed "0", it would simply ring my line again,
and then go back to the message.  There was no person to whom the call
could be routed to; I didn't have a seceratary, nor would the company
operator have been able to take a message.  I wasn't about to send all
of my calls to my boss, who didn't have seceratary either, and was
also hardly at his desk.  Not the best system, but given the option of
no answer, what would you want?

>I've never heard a satisfactory answer to that one!

How's that?


Gary Segal	...!uunet!motcid!segal		+1-708-632-2354
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