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#293967 31/01/05 08:17 AM
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SO I bought an answering machine today and I opened the instruction booklet to get it set up correctly. According to the instructions, connecting a telephone is optional...

Er...

Am I the only who finds that odd?

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yep, you are <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />...

more seriously it remembers that when i was a student i had an answering machine without telephone.

people used it for leaving messages not for phoning... communications cost was inexistant for me and it was more or less efficient for dating etc... please: note the "more or less" <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" />... it was very efficient for overlooking an unpleasant date though <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" />


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Not at all.

Ask MeaCulpa. That's exactly how his is set up. It takes messages all the time. Keeps the nasty telemarketers and debt collectors at bay.

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Sounds like some sort of board or e-mail but with voice instead. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />


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soo, how do u answer if not by phone? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/suspicion.gif" alt="" />
i dont get it


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sometimes it is just better not to answer...

well if you want to phone though, i will recommend the option with a telephone.


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soo, how do u answer if not by phone?
i dont get it

Hmm well that is the point .. really!
but yes on the odd occasion that there is a "genuine" message, like say the security company calling to say that the alrm went off in sector 5, I use my Cell phone <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />


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so the answering machine is a spam trap?

wow! Mea, great idea! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" />



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so the answering machine is a spam trap?

wow! Mea, great idea! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" />

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I thought that was the main use of an answering machine. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

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Tsel #293976 02/02/05 03:29 AM
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well i never thought of it that way. i always see it as a machine to help answer calls when u're not available to receive them at the time. i just never thought of using it to filter calls. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ouch.gif" alt="" />



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janggut >

Think of all of the Telemarketer calls you avoid that way. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" />

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