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- Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
- Path: sparky!uunet!world!mgm
- From: mgm@world.std.com (michael g moncur)
- Subject: Re: more phone phun
- Message-ID: <C0407v.27w@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <1hnf50INN9uv@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 05:50:19 GMT
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- bq276@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael Seese) writes:
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- >In his article, Craig says he has his answering machine say
- >something like ``The number you have reached has *not* been
- >changed.''
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- >I'll bet you miss a lot of important messages that way, Craig.
- >I hope you're not interviewing for any jobs.
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- Yes, many a coworker or grandparent can misinterpret a good shenanigan...
- But that's a risk you have to take.
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- I've found that starting the message with a large musical fanfare of some
- sort serves to both confuse the caller, and to let them know that it
- is really my machine...
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- --
- ~`~`michael moncur - mgm@world.std.com / sysop@onlybbs.via.mind.org ~`~`
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