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- Path: sparky!uunet!unislc!dw
- From: dw@unislc.uucp (Dan Wright)
- Subject: Re: Telephone Aswering Machine
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- References: <l6lvm0INNst1@nunki.usc.edu>
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.022321.8997@unislc.uucp>
- Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 02:23:21 GMT
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- rmakarem@usc.edu (Total Stranger) writes:
- : Now I am in the market for an answering machine, and I need
- : recommendations.
-
- I buy the answering service from the local phone company.
-
- : Here are the features I am looking for:
- : - Separate cassettes for the outgoing message and the incoming
- : messages (micro or regular cassettes.)
-
- The phone company keeps a digital recording of your
- "greeting" which you can modify any time. Your messages
- are also recorded digitally on some hard disk at the phone
- company.
-
- : - Day/time stamp.
-
- Pressing menu choice "5" gives you the stamp.
-
- : - Battery backup. Must reset itself after a power failure.
-
- Phone companies use uninterruptable power supplies.
-
- : - Remote activation and message retrieval.
-
- Just call the access number from any phone and type in your passwd ...
-
- : - Must stop and reset if any phone handset is picked up after
- : the machine starts to answer.
-
- Does.
-
- : - Relatively quiet operation.
-
- Perfectly silent.
-
- : - Inexpensive (or am I asking too much?)
-
- $6.50 per month.
-
-
- -- Dan Wright
-