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From: think!ames!limbic.UUCP!gil@eddie.mit.edu (Gil Kloepfer Jr.)
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Subject: Re: Computerized Collect Calls
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Date: 1 Feb 90 03:53:13 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 67, message 8 of 11


In article <3345@accuvax.nwu.edu> adamg@world.std.com (Adam M Gaffin) writes:
>X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 63, message 14 of 17

>When you place a collect call at one of those NE Tel pay phones that
>uses a computer to make such calls, the computer tells the person on
>the other end that he has a call from {your name here} and then tells
>him to say either "yes" or "no" to accepting the call.

Problem #2 with this:  When this 'neat' thing calls my answering
machine, as it has once already, it keeps on asking my answering
machine whether it wishes to accept the call.  In fact, the
voice-response announcement got rather angry sounding when it
continued to get no response from the answering machine!

Although I like the idea of these automated things...and yes, they do
have some interesting (though illegal I guess) side-effects of
allowing free 'message' passing capability, I see an increasing
problem with these automated devices clogging my answering machine to
wazoo.  The automated sleeze (sales) machines also do a number on the
machine.

An interesting thread to start here would be how the newer answering
machines should detect such things?  Should, perhaps, a certain amount
of call type-code signals be sent on the line?  Should automated
answering devices send a code so that a sending device can see that
they're also talking to a machine?  


Gil Kloepfer, Jr.
...!ames!limbic!gil | gil%limbic@ames.arc.nasa.gov ICUS Software
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