[Cialug] another phone

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

I grew up in the landline era. I've found that I constantly screen calls
and I have absolutely no misgivings about it. If your caller id shows as
"unknown", I don't even bother to answer.

I teach some classes in the evening, and if a cell phone rings, the
owner is doing pushups. If noone claims the phone, everyone  does
pushups.

:) Dave


On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 11:43 -0500, Nathan Stien wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Like with email, there's a rhythm you can adopt that will let you keep
> > your insanity.  In other words, don't always answer the phone, and
> > don't always call back right away.
> 
> There seems to be a generation gap regarding the acceptability of
> screening calls.  In the age of ubiquitous mobile phones, screening
> calls is a vital tactic.  It seems to me that many people who
> developed their phone manners in the landline era (esp. before caller
> ID and voicemail) tend to consider screening calls to be impermissibly
> rude.  That attitude leads to trouble in the current technological
> context.
> 
> - Nathan
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