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- From: ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson)
- Newsgroups: uk.telecom
- Subject: Re: caller ID
- Message-ID: <8234@skye.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 15:18:21 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.085721.9253@edscom.demon.co.uk>
- ian@edscom.demon.co.uk (Ian Green) writes:
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- # I'm sure that, for a small fee, someone around here will design you a
- # phone that automatically recognises one of them calling and doesn't
- # bother to ring :-)
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- While not ringing, it must answer the phone with a recorded announcement
- saying `The number you are calling is <indecipherable mumble>. Please
- hold the line', pours charge-pulses down the line faster than a
- tommy-gun sprays bullets, and plays them `The Birdie Song'.
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- Ian could make a million out of this. Can I have 10% please?
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- fortunately, Ken Johnson
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