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Subject:RE: For Your Amusement: RAS Syndrome From:Jay Maechtlen <jmaechtlen -at- amada -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 12 Feb 2002 13:23:09 -0700
Susie Pearson <spearson -at- espial -dot- com> wrote in news:140730 -at- techwr-l:
> Along a similar line (well sort of, not really), how about calling an
> answering machine and preceding your message with "Hi, it's me."? What
> a useless sentence... absolutely no information there!
>
well, I do it- my theory is:
we need to hear a voice for some duration to recognize the pattern and
person - by the time I've said "Hi, it's me", they have recognized my
voice...
Jay
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