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"Please leave a message after the toneBEEEEEP" doesn't give me enough time to think. I'd prefer "Please leave a message after the tone; Press 1 now to delay for five seconds".
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You could always just press the button again. Care would have to be taken that the number of delays wasn't stored somehow in the message metadata: "Caller took - 25 - seconds to think of this message". |
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I thought this would be the other way around - a button I
could press when I was talking to one person but got a "call
waiting" beep. I could press a button to give a beep (or even
a recorded message) saying "Don't go away, I'll be there in
just a moment" to the waiting caller, without having to
switch calls. |
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Must be a fault on the line line. Actually, I've noticed that
my annos often seem to vanish (ie, not appear after I've
clicked 'OK') or appear in duplicate despite (I think) a single
click. Maybe my browser (Safari 3.1 on MacOSX) is a bad
choice? |
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Is the purpose of the button to avoid those obligatory "Oh, erm, ahh, hello" moments that ensue whenever one is confronted with an unexpected machine? |
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[MB] for me this is one of those sites that occasionally has a lag problem. |
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I can see the value in this idea. I'll add this to my list of desired features for the machine I'm taking the wife to buy this weekend (main desired feature so far is that it stops the phone ringing and takes calls silently). |
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Excellent, I wish phones had this. |
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Umm sorry but after you have left the message you can press a key to listen to it and press another to change it... |
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after thinking for about 5 secs, I decided to bun.+
I'd like to see the option to press the actual numbers to give that allotted amount of time to think- like 1 + 0 gives ten secs, etc. |
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Geez, presumably you had something in mind to say to the actual person. Just say *that* to the machine. What is the point of the extra time? |
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b/c with a person you can go "hi" "how are you" "may I ask you a question", etc. to buy time before you get to the point. But a machine is inflexible and no hemming or hawing is allowed. |
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Plus, we've all been annoyed by friends leaving non-fluent messages that we're trying to get through listening to while desperately having to go to the bathroom. An extra 5 seconds can reduce the message length by 20 seconds. |
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At first I was thinking the same thing as [texticle], but the extra time gives one a chance to be more *creative* with the message! ;) |
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This is exactly the point - when I phone someone I am prepared for a few seconds of smalltalk and will then come to the point of the call. I'm not always prepared for that straightaway. |
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"Hello, you have reached my phone, but I am out right now. I hope you are having a good day? Press 1 for Yes, press 2 for No." |
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"Well, that's too bad, but did you hear a about Sarah? She broke up with Jason and stole his car. Press 1 for What a bitch!, Press 2 for That's great man, but hey I really got to tell you something." |
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"Yeah, the police found the car stuck in the salt flats in Nevada with a bag of coke and pair of leather chaps in the passenger's seat. They've been searching for her since Tuesday but they haven't found her yet! Press 1 for Leather chaps? Press 2 for Everyone knew Sarah mixed with the wrong crowd, but hey, I've got something to tell you" |
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"Yes, a pair of man's black leather chaps. How can you explain that? And the coke? They have been questioning Jason as well, but he has no idea where the chaps came from, or the coke. Press 1 for Everyone knows Jason did blow, Press 2 for Leather chaps aside, I need to leave you a message" |
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/when I phone someone I am prepared for a few seconds of smalltalk and will then come to the point of the call. I'm not always prepared for that straightaway./ |
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Surely the small talk and the actual point are two distinct items. Machine answers, abort Phase 1, engage Phase 2. |
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in the email version, you may be allowed to recall the screwup emails you sent within 10 mins |
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I'm all for it. I often hang up when I get the recording, think up what message I want to leave, and then call back. |
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'course, then the person answers the phone and messes me up again... |
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