Path: utzoo!attcan!ncrcan!ziebmef!stephen
From: stephen@ziebmef.uucp (Stephen M. Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Want computer/voice sales hardware/
Summary: a refinement to the needs of the person on the receiving end
Message-ID: <1989May27.135518.20833@ziebmef.uucp>
Date: 27 May 89 17:55:16 GMT
References: <151@jma.UUCP> <17100002@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: stephen@ziebmef.UUCP (Stephen M. Dunn)
Organization: Ziebmef Public Access Unix, Toronto, Ontario
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In article <17100002@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
$So what we need is a device that can detect a sales message,
$stop the recorder, back up the recorder over what was recorded,
$and leave the phone off the hook to let the message run its course,
$hanging up only when the dang blast calling machine does.

   Might I suggest a refinement to the above ... the machine should also
be able to tell when the sales pitch is finished and leave a message of
the owner's choice (potentially polite, more likely exceptionally offensive)
when it starts recording your response :-)
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! Stephen M. Dunn              stephen@ziebmef.UUCP ! DISCLAIMER:  Who'd ever !
! Take off to the Great White North eh, ya hosehead ! claim such dumb ideas?  !
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