Mark wrote:

On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:19:06 +0000, Tim Watts
wrote:

The truth of how important a call is is whether they leave an answerphone
message...

How important it is to *them*. Which may be completely different to
its importance to *you*.

Almost never important enough for me to stop eating my supper.

Anyone I care about will write if there is a problem (eg insurance).

Everyone else - it is either mutually important enough for an answerphone
message, or I don't care.

If it's a trader calling, then more fool them for not leaving a message...

--
Tim Watts