posted on July 30, 2008 01:31:17 PM new
At LEAST a million dollars. If anyone can invent an answering machine that can block UNKNOWN CALLER UNKNOWN NUMBER you can make a fortune.
Like I'm really going to break my neck answering a call from one of those.
I just had one of those except the number showed 850-000-0000. The area code is mine. And they so thoughtfully left a message. A candidate is having a little party and wanting me to attend! Isn't that sweet!
posted on July 30, 2008 04:16:18 PM new
I also would like the same person to invent selective blocking. My mother-in-law (who we already have a special ring for on the phone) - Since we only answer about 5% of her calls, she leaves messages. We've let her know that we no longer listen to messages, as soon as I hear the first three digits of her phone number (which just happen to be the number of the beast) I hit 3 to delete. She still leaves messages even though we've told her over and over again we don't listen to them, not even to hear her voice.
Anyway, that invention would be very useful for me!
posted on July 31, 2008 07:28:17 AM new
That's why I don't have children - I don't want them to grow up and avoid my calls! I stick with dogs, they're always happy to see me.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Caroline
posted on July 31, 2008 07:32:39 AM new
I got both kids and dogs. I love em both but my dogs do as they are told, they keep their rooms (Kennels) clean, never ask for money and they never whiz down my leg and tell me it's raining!
posted on July 31, 2008 07:45:39 AM new
Isn't it possible to program some phones to refuse calls if the number is blocked? Seems to me I read that.
I would love to have another kind of filter, one that could be programmed to check email from certain addresses for the number of recipients in the address line. That would allow me to filter out the email for family members who feel compelled to forward every joke, sappy sentiment, urban legend, and insult to my political position to me and 60 of their closest friends and still read the ones that are actually to me about family matters. I have found that the subject line is not always a reliable clue.
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“The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as of the pen.”
Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
Caroline