At the risk of moving this back on topic:-)

While shifting some hay bales this afternoon a stray thought about
answer phones crossed my mind.

How do the recorded message versions know they have reached an answering
machine?

What would be the effect of an answer phone message *hello* followed by
a several second gap and then the phone tone for a 9 which is a common
*no call back* option?
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Tim Lamb

I'm not sure if the standard message recorder could record the tones well
enough to work.
Brian

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At the risk of moving this back on topic:-)

While shifting some hay bales this afternoon a stray thought about answer
phones crossed my mind.

How do the recorded message versions know they have reached an answering
machine?

What would be the effect of an answer phone message *hello* followed by a
several second gap and then the phone tone for a 9 which is a common *no
call back* option?
--
Tim Lamb

On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:46:46 +0000, Tim Lamb
wrote:

At the risk of moving this back on topic:-)

While shifting some hay bales this afternoon a stray thought about
answer phones crossed my mind.

How do the recorded message versions know they have reached an answering
machine?

What would be the effect of an answer phone message *hello* followed by
a several second gap and then the phone tone for a 9 which is a common
*no call back* option?

"9" launches the Nuclear missiles, doesn't it?

[I sometimes get part of a recorded spam message on my Voicemail so I
assume that they don't all detect this]
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(='.'=) If a man stands in a forest and no woman is around
(")_(") is he still wrong?

On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:46:46 +0000, Tim Lamb
wrote:

At the risk of moving this back on topic:-)

While shifting some hay bales this afternoon a stray thought about
answer phones crossed my mind.

How do the recorded message versions know they have reached an answering
machine?

What would be the effect of an answer phone message *hello* followed by
a several second gap and then the phone tone for a 9 which is a common
*no call back* option?

I hadn't noticed that "9" was an option offered to opt out, but I am
prepared to believe it if you say so.

However I am FAR to cynical to believe it actually gets you removed
from the database. On the contrary it is likely to flag your number as
a live one, that is answered by a human rather than a machine.

--
Graham.

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