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From: rjd@tiger.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Sales computer clamp-down
Message-ID: <140200006@tiger.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Sep-87 10:45:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  2 10:45:00 1987
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Nf-From: tiger.UUCP!rjd    Sep  2 09:45:00 1987


> >> >This morning, I answered my phone to find a computer at the
> >> >other end.  ...
> 
> A few weeks ago, I came home from work.  I hadn't turned off
> my answering machine yet.  The phone rang and ... you guessed it ...
> one machine talking to another.  What a perfect environment
> for artificial intelligence research.
> 
> Let's see if .signature works.

  (looks like your .sig didn't work...)

  Yeah, I had one of those machine conversations a while back on my
answering machine.  Still is a bother because, since my machine will
record up to three or four minutes as long as you keep talking, and I
have no fast forward button (cheap but good machine), I had to listen
to the whole spiel to hear the empty message after it....  I would just
settle to find out who the person was that came up with the idea.  Then
I could program my uucp to poll his number every 5 minutes :-).

Randy