Re: OT Answering machine is so 20th century (Re: Mac OS X Leopard)

[Erie Patsellis <erie@shelbyvilledesign.com>]

Wow, makes me glad I don't have a cell phone. In fact not having one 
tends to make me more productive, but only on one thing at a time.


erie

Ryuji Suzuki wrote:
> This is unrelated to your context but it's just my personal
> rant triggered by what you said.
>
> I think answering machine hurts productivity. I want an option
> to disable this function on my cellular phone so that people
> can't leave any message for me (at least from other cellular
> phones).
>
> About 80% of people can't summarize important bits of
> information into a 30 second message. If I have to call back
> to figure out how important the message was, I probably forget
> to call back. I used to check voice mail to find about the 15%
> of useful messages. (This is counting strictly goal-oriented
> communication, not counting personal friends trying to figure
> out if I feel like going for drink with them, etc.)
>
> Plus, when I use voice mail from cellular phone, why do I have
> to go through the stupid voice guided menu options every time?
> That's already 30 seconds!
>
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