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In response to
"In this day and age how do people not have an answering machine or voicemail? -- nm"
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sycor
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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
Posted by
Beryllium (aka grayman)
Apr 20 '10, 08:44
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no monthly fee and no password to remember? -- nm
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zork
Apr 20, 08:48
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I suppose those are valid reasons. (And most answering machines have remote passwords, IIRC) -- nm
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Beryllium
Apr 20, 08:50
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few people using them (esp. *still* using them) access their messages remotely -- nm
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zork
Apr 20, 08:51
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If anyone important wants us, they call our mobiles. -- nm
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Spawn
Apr 20, 08:50
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Exactly. The fact that most people still have home phone lines (including me) is silly. :) -- nm
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Beryllium
Apr 20, 08:52
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With the Uverse package, it is pretty much free and includes long distance. I want it there for The Bub (soon). -- nm
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Spawn
Apr 20, 09:01
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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
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zork
Apr 20, 08:57
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I don't think I've had a home phone line since about 2001 -- nm
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mafic
Apr 20, 08:54
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(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
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Beryllium
Apr 20, 08:52
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We did until we switched to Uverse. We don't really get messages at home. -- nm
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Spawn
Apr 20, 08:46
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