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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: Mac as a telephone answering machine?
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Date: 12 Feb 90 17:17:02 GMT
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In article <1990Feb9.145320.28022@iex.uucp> cramer@athens.tmc.edu (Bill Cramer) writes:
>I sure don't want to leave my $$$ computer (mac or
>otherwise) up all day and night waiting to record phone calls from 
>aluminum siding salecritters :-)

Except during a thunderstorm, leaving your $$$ computer on all the time
is better for it than power-cycling it frequently.  If you use your computer
more than once a week, you're probably better off leaving it on.

What would make a really great product would be one that could recognize
the voices of salespeople, and emit high-volume noise into their ears :-).

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Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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