[Info-vax] One wonders why people bet their companies on Microsoft based products...

[Alan Feldman]

On Oct 14, 1:53 pm, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <yBnBm.3787$D95.3... at newsfe22.ams2>, ChrisQ <m... at devnull.com> writes:
> >VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>
> >> $ SET POST/STYLE=RANT/CLASS=TELEPHONE/STATE=ON
>
> >> I hate the telephone in general.  Calls are nuisance and an invasion of my
> >> privacy and tranquility.  As such, unless I travel long distance, I almost
> >> NEVER carry the mobile phone.  At home, it's someone else's duty to answer
> >> the phone.
>
> >> $ SET POST/STYLE=RANT/CLASS=TELEPHONE/STATE=OFF
>
> >Rofl... Invasion of privacy - couldn't agree more, especially the people
> >who have the temerity to call when you've just started dinner, or some
> >other important activity. They should know that you are trying to eat
> >dinner and have the good manners to ring at a more appropriate time :-).
>
> Dinner time, what a good song is playing or in the midddle of intimate
> moments are the very very worst.  Any other time in between is still as
> bad.  I hate the phone almost as much as those scumbag pieces of shit
> collectively known as lawyers.
>
> >The answer here is just to ignore the phone if you don't feel like
> >answering it. If it's important, they can call back later...

And you can ignore them again!

>
> I loathe telephone so much that I have a number of services on my line:
>
> Caller-ID:  IF you call and I can't see who is calling, I won't answer.

Your physicians must love this. Or do they get the call-intercept fun
you describe below?

>
> VoiceMail:  If I didn't answer and it was important, leave a message.
>
> Call-Intercept:  If the caller has an unpublished number, they receive a
> message telling them that we don't accept calls from unpublished numbers.
> If it is important, they can leave a message stating name and purpose of
> the call.  It then rings us with a special ring and I can listen to the
> description left and opt to accept or deny the call.  This one has really
> puts a limit on the telemarketers and, if they lie to get through, the
> phone company will prosecute them.  I hate liars more than mother rapers,
> father stabbers and father rapers! ;)
>
> At one time, I had the DECtalk answer the phone.  If it was someone that
> I knew, they could type a special code and the call would get though.  I
> also had it programmed to limit my childrens' phone abusing friends from
> calling repeatedly throughout the day.  Two calls per day and then they
> were denied for 24 hours.
> --
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AEF