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- From: v148rb5b@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (COLLIN MCCULLEY)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: Telephone Answering Machines
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- Date: 23 Jul 92 15:22:00 GMT
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- Well, phone company message services aside, I can recommend if
- you want a *traditional* answering machine, stay away from AT&T products,
- especially their phone-and-answering machine combinations. I've had
- no end of trouble with them. Actually, the answering machine itself is
- generally ok, except features keep going out in the whole system, including:
-
- -The answering machine won't answer remote commands anymore
- -The redial feature rarely remembers the previously dialed number
-
- and various other problems.
- What's worse is AT&T's version of servicing. If your machine breaks,
- they send it back to the factory, and then give you someone else's broken &
- repaired machine. You don't get your own back! Who knows what the hell
- happened to the machine they're giving you. Chances are very good that
- when you get the machine back, something totally new is on the fritz (that's
- what happened in my case). Ack!
-