Jeff.Scheer@uunet.uu.net> (05/19/91)
Pat, what I meant was that by adding the 00 and other numbers, people that see this coming up on their display pagers usually call in quicker as the numbers peak their curiousity. If for example a client (let's say a mortician ) is unavailable for voice contact, we as the service ring that pager and display the message check in number followed by 00. If this is an emergency, we keep paging him/her and add 01/02/03 etc ... After so many times of the pager going off, the client will call in just to quit getting "bothered". Score one for that pushy answering service. We can usually get a message out of a caller before they even know what happened. Jeff The .COMmand Center (Opus 1:5010/23)