"Mark D. Zacharias" wrote in message
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Just get a continuous loop tape for an old answering machine, they still
sell them, 60 seconds is a common size and they'll hang up before then
anyway. Load it up with opera music or something.
I used to think I was a clever guy by having humorous outgoing messages on
my answering machine. This was before I grew up a bit.
Anyway, one of the better ones was to use the actual telco announcement
that, "we're sorry, but you must first dial a 1 or a 0 ...." and repeated
it
several times before the beep. When the caller then dialed the 1 or 0,
they
would then get the real telco message "we're sorry, but it is not
necessary
to dial a 1 or 0....."
I was quite proud of myself for that one....
Mark Z.
The meanest ( fraudulent ) I've heard of is using a continuous tape of the
ringing tone used on a premium rate line.
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