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johnnie
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response 15 of 365:
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Sep 27 03:14 UTC 2000 |
The (federal) Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 makes recorded
telemarketing calls a big no-no.
(see: http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/227.html )
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keesan
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response 16 of 365:
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Sep 28 00:33 UTC 2000 |
Why would an out-of-state church want to call us? We could not report to the
FCC who called our answering machine, as they left no phone number or name.
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danr
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response 17 of 365:
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Sep 28 12:45 UTC 2000 |
One reason they'd call you is to get you to send them money. Of course, if they
left no name or number, that would be kind of difficult for you to do. :)
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mooncat
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response 18 of 365:
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Sep 28 13:42 UTC 2000 |
I got a couple strange messages (1 one day, the 2nd the next) from
people who apparently thought I had an answering machine (I don't, I
have voicemail) and all they pretty much said was "Anne, Anne are you
home? Is anyone home? Please pick up" but they left no name, no number
(caller id didn't get it since the calls came in while Sarah or I were
online) and it's just rather frustrating to not know who called, or how
to contact them. Why would someone do something so foolish as to leave
a message and not include their name or at least a phone number?
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birdy
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response 19 of 365:
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Sep 28 14:37 UTC 2000 |
Especially two days in a row... They obviously didn't need to talk to you that
urgently... How irritating, though. And I'm particularly mad that *69 doesn't
work when our voice mail picks up after it notes we're on the phone.
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flem
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response 20 of 365:
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Sep 28 15:08 UTC 2000 |
I had my phone ring yesterday, and picked it up, and didn't even hear a
dialtone. Then I looked down, and noticed that the phone line wasn't plugged
in to it; I was on the modem! That was creepy.
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birdy
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response 21 of 365:
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Sep 28 16:20 UTC 2000 |
Oooohhh... =)
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jerryr
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response 22 of 365:
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Sep 28 18:06 UTC 2000 |
one of the reasons i like caller id is that it enables me to return calls.
the other is that it screens siding salesman. on the surface i was attracted
to voice mail, but i find my caller id display to be much more efficient when
coupled with a digital answer machine. btw, my caller id is call waiting
caller id, so it identifies who is calling while i am on another call.
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tod
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response 23 of 365:
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Sep 28 18:13 UTC 2000 |
I like it as I can get a number to call someone back without having
to dig out my phone list.
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mooncat
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response 24 of 365:
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Sep 28 21:20 UTC 2000 |
The cool thing with voicemail is that if Sarah or I are online- we can
still get messages. We can't with an answering machine
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ashke
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response 25 of 365:
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Sep 28 21:22 UTC 2000 |
I think that is the reason that I don't have voice mail. I don't WANT people
to call when I'm online....
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orinoco
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response 26 of 365:
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Sep 28 21:30 UTC 2000 |
I'm looking for PVA glue. The only use I know of for it is in bookbinding,
and so were I in Ann Arbor, I'd go to Hollander's for it, but I'm not. What
else is PVA glue used for? What other sorts of store might have it?
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jiffer
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response 27 of 365:
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Sep 28 21:41 UTC 2000 |
You may want to see if any art supply stores will have that glue. Many times
art suppliers are also book binding suppliers since book binding is
technically an art form and is taught in many universities' art departments.
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anderyn
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response 28 of 365:
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Sep 29 00:51 UTC 2000 |
I know I've seen that glue at art supply stores (you could also try Michaels
Craft stores, since they seem to carry a wide variety of craft/art supplies)
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other
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response 29 of 365:
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Sep 29 01:01 UTC 2000 |
Poly Vinyl Acetate?
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birdy
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response 30 of 365:
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Sep 29 01:06 UTC 2000 |
Ashke - you would rather have them get a busy signal than leave a message so
you can call them back? It's really nice and handy, and I'm grateful when
I call friends who have it. That way I can get them the message without
calling them every ten minutes.
What ticks me off completely is that A Merry Wreck charges us for a phone call
whenever someone leaves a message. Now, if that person uses A Merry Wreck,
they also get charged for the call. So, A Merry Wreck makes double the money
on a single phone call. Bastards.
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scg
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response 31 of 365:
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Sep 29 06:05 UTC 2000 |
And if that person doesn't use Ameritech, Ameritech gets paid a "settlement"
fee by whoever the person does use, which is considerably more than an
Ameritech customer would pay Ameritech to make a phone call. That said, are
you really getting more than 400 voice mail messages per month?
I still use an answering machine because I like being able to screen calls
through it, although most of my calls these days seem to come in on my cell
phone which does have voice mail. I figure that if somebody really needs to
get ahold of me and my line is busy, if they're important enough they probably
know my cell phone number and can call that.
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birdy
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response 32 of 365:
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Sep 29 06:11 UTC 2000 |
We get roughly four calls on voice mail per day. Multiplied by 30 days,
that's 120 calls we *didn't* make but count toward our 400 limit. They
consider it voice mail service fees...okay, so then what's this fee we're
paying every month under "Voice Mail Charge"?
Ooh...I wish people could choose their phone provider instead of having a
default for the area...
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mooncat
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response 33 of 365:
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Sep 29 13:56 UTC 2000 |
Caller ID can be used to screen calls. <grins> And Sarah and I have
been known to use it for that purpose from time to time. Not all that
often because there aren't all that many phone calls I'm avoiding.
Besides, I can always take a message for myself, given 'Anne Perry' is
rarely home.
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albaugh
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response 34 of 365:
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Sep 29 15:12 UTC 2000 |
Is there a way in vi to use the s (substitute) command to add/delete tabs or
newlines? \t and \n are not taken as controls, so that doesn't work...
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mdw
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response 35 of 365:
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Sep 29 19:18 UTC 2000 |
It should suffice to just press control-I or the tab key for tab - no
need to do anything magic there. Newline is special because it's not
only the command line delimiter, but also a file line delimiter.
Searching for a newline with the substitute command is not possible;
that would imply pattern matching across lines, and if it were allowed,
would not only produce surprising results, but would be much *much*
slower. If you really want to do that, you might want to look into
perl. Inserting a newline with the substitute command is quite easy -
just type backslash newline. You can't do this from within visual mode,
you have to get back into command line mode (Q from visual mode) before
you can do this. Another command you may want to investigate is "join"
- which glues lines together and so effectively removes newlines. You
might be able to join lines together that you care about, do your
pattern matching, then split them up again.
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jep
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response 36 of 365:
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Sep 29 19:44 UTC 2000 |
Within vi, you can use CTRL-V, then a special character, such as a
carriage return, tab or whatever.
:g/^V^M/s///g -- removes all carriage returns from your file
(press CTRL-V, then CTRL^M or carriage return,
don't type a ^ then a V)
:g/^V^I/s//^V^M/g -- converts all tabs to carriage returns
I hope that helps.
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drew
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response 37 of 365:
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Sep 29 20:05 UTC 2000 |
Re #32:
I'm seeing commercials for non-Ameritech local phone service companies
nowadays.
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mcnally
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response 38 of 365:
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Sep 29 20:56 UTC 2000 |
re #35: combining #35 and 36 for an ugly kludge, if you *really* need
to pattern match across lines, you can use three substitutions -- one to
change all of the newline characters in your file to some other character
you're sure doesn't exist elsewhere in the file (there are lots of control
characters that are usually safe choices..), a second to achieve the
substitution you want, and a third to change the modified newlines back
to newlines..
Note that that'll only work on either extremely small files in most
original vis, which have a very limited line size.. Newer vi variants
(nvi, vim, etc..) can handle much longer lines..
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richard
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response 39 of 365:
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Sep 30 06:37 UTC 2000 |
caller id only works if the person calling you doenst dial *67and
block it-- which brings into question the value of theservice
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