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From: yazz@prodnet.la.locus.com (Bob Yasi)
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Subject: Re: Voice Mail -- Just Say "O"
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motcid!segal@uunet.uu.net (Gary Segal) quotes me getting irate:

> >"How dare you have a phone system that doesn't get you an operator
> >when you dial O?"
> >I've never heard a satisfactory answer to that one!
 
and suggests an exception from his own experience:

> There was no person to whom the call could be routed to

Well, Gary, in your example, the actual answer is that there was no
human available at all.  There being no "bizarre touchtone incantation
to divinate", no "French Horn Routing to traverse", no "droning menu
having more options than this sentence has adjectives" to wade through
for before being Permitted to talk to a real human, I'd simply leave a
message on your machine.  So you'd have never heard an irate message
from me; I like answering machines just fine.

By the way, I was so amused by Andy [a College friend I'm back in
e-mail contact with thanks to the Digest] Behrens's posting about the
Sharper self-Image's phone that makes eight different sounds,
including a crying baby to repel telemarketers, that I called them up
to order one!

Well, THEY have a voice mail system. And IT has a LONG menu.  And
dialing "O" only makes it start all over again.  I'll be ordering my
crying baby phone elsewhere!


 -- Bob Yazz --  yazz@locus.com