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

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If you do like me and not give out the number and not turn the thing on 
except when I want to make a call, the cell phone is no distraction.
John
Erie Patsellis wrote:
> 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!
> >
> > .......
> >
> >
> >