Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osu-cis!killer!vector!telecom-gateway From: MYERSTON@kl.sri.com (HECTOR MYERSTON) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: VoiceMail Liberation Message-ID: Date: 21 Mar 89 19:14:04 GMT Sender: news@vector.UUCP Lines: 17 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 102, message 6 of 10 John Murray writes: >Too many of us already assume that everyone who calls us is using a >tone phone (and speaks English), so we make them use voicemail systems >for our convenience. We screen callers with machines which pretend >we're not at home, and talk about extra super-secret codes which our >friends have to enter to get through to us. An answering machine can >cause a foreign caller to be automatically charged for a 3-minute call >(perhaps $10 or more) from some locations. Gee John, thanks for raising my consciousness!!. Here I had foolishly and selfishly programmed my voicemail "for my own convenience". I have taken immediate action to reprogram my greeting in Urdu, Persian and Lithuanian. Since I am unable to handle all the world's languages, I will choose three "politically correct" languages every week from now on. -------