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From: nam2254%dsacg2.dsac.dla.mil@dsac.dla.mil (Tom Ohmer)
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Subject: Re: Answering Machine Beeps But Does Not Take Message
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Date: 30 Nov 90 14:07:41 GMT
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 From article <14931@accuvax.nwu.edu>, by john@mojave.ati.com (John
Higdon):

< Carl Moore (VLD/VMB) <cmoore@brl.mil> writes:

<> What is the meaning of the aforementioned beep?
<> [on a machine that announces that it does not record messages from
<> callers]

< This beep is your signal that the TV station in question is too cheap
< or lazy to obtain an answering device that has an "announce-only"
< function. []

Mine (Tandy/Radio Shack) has an "announce" function, and behaves
precisely as Carl described.  When the OGM tape head senses the foil
at the end/beginning of the loop, the beep sounds and the OGM stops,
regardless of "answer" or "announce" mode.

The *meaning* of the beep, to me, would be that the announcement was
completed.


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