[net.consumers] REPOSTING * don't answer the phone

colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (George Sicherman) (07/28/84)

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>>	If you are busy, just don't answer the phone!  A truely
>>	important call will be repeated; the caller will call back.
>>	Pavlov conditioned dogs to salivate when a bell rang; now the
>>	Bell people (RIP - ripped in pieces) have conditioned the
>>	American public to leap for the phone when it rings.

No matter when you answer the phone, it could be a sales call, an
obscene call, or a threat.  After 80 years of "progress", you still
cannot identify an incoming call without answering it.  (I once read a
news article about a call tracer for household use.  I believe AT&T
forced it off the market--can anybody confirm this?)

I'll take netmail over phone calls.
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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