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In this day and age how do people not have an answering machine or voicemail? -- nm

Posted by sycor Apr 20 '10, 08:42

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In this day and age, why do people still use physical answering machines? My voicemail emails my messages to my iPhone. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 20, 08:44 15
- no monthly fee and no password to remember? -- nm - zork Apr 20, 08:48 13
  - I suppose those are valid reasons. (And most answering machines have remote passwords, IIRC) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 20, 08:50 12
    - few people using them (esp. *still* using them) access their messages remotely -- nm - zork Apr 20, 08:51
    - If anyone important wants us, they call our mobiles. -- nm - Spawn Apr 20, 08:50 10
      - Exactly. The fact that most people still have home phone lines (including me) is silly. :) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 20, 08:52 9
        
        With the Uverse package, it is pretty much free and includes long distance. I want it there for The Bub (soon). -- nm - Spawn Apr 20, 09:01 1
        
        The "full" package for my digital phone has free long distance, but I barely ever use any long distance. - Beryllium Apr 20, 09:04
        
        not really. My wife works from home and has long conference calls, uses dial-up as a backup if the broadband connection is down, and their are extensi - zork Apr 20, 08:57 4
        
        I don't think dial-up would work on my phone line -- nm - Beryllium Apr 20, 08:57 3
        
        (And also, if the internet was out, so too would my phone line be :) ) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 20, 08:58 2
        
        exactly, that's not much of a backup. -- nm - zork Apr 20, 08:58 1
        
        but since I don't technically own my iPhone, I'm not entirely comfortable ditching the home phone line -- nm - Beryllium Apr 20, 08:59
        
        I don't think I've had a home phone line since about 2001 -- nm - mafic Apr 20, 08:54
        
        (And, in my case, the old "it'll work in a power outage" doesn't apply. Sure, my digital phone modem has a UPS, but my cordless phone doesn't) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 20, 08:52
- We did until we switched to Uverse. We don't really get messages at home. -- nm - Spawn Apr 20, 08:46
By choice, man. By choice. -- nm - Kid hanging out at convenience store at night Apr 20, 08:43
My grandma doesn't. -- nm - Spawn Apr 20, 08:43

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