Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: 5 Apr 91 20:33:29 GMT From: "Robert E. Zabloudil" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Some Callers and Answering Machines Message-ID: Organization: Defense Logistics Agency Systems Automation Center, Columbus Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 272, Message 11 of 11 Lines: 29 In article bill@eedsp.gatech.edu writes: X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 227, Message 8 of 13 > Ever since I got Caller ID, I've noticed that some callers will call, > Call -- CALL, and will never leave a message. I can understand why > telemarketing creatures would not leave a message - they don't want to My answering machine is sort of rinky dink (fixed length OGM, and as a holdover from my radio days, I hate dead air, so I filled the w-h-o-l-e OGM tape), and I tell 'em "we don't really like answering machines ourselves, but we didn't have any choice right now, we had to put it on, so...". One day, someone who thought it was urgent called and hung up, called and hung up, over and over, and filled up the whole tape while we were out of town for the day. She's fairly intelligent; you'd think she would know that we would either pick up the phone and talk to her if we were just monitoring calls (not paranoid, just can't always get there quickly to pick it up, you know), or we would call her back as soon as we could, or maybe we were being antisocial (after the eighth hangup, a different adjective comes to mind). Like you, I wonder sometimes ... I might call back a second time, if I thought they'd forgotten me ... by the time we got back that evening and called her, she was not home, and talking to other people we found they had handled the situation anyway.