[Cialug] another phone

[Stuart Thiessen]

I went to one conference where the MC said, "If your cellphone rings,  
you will buy all of us pizza." :)

Stuart

On 31 Mar 2008, at 11:52 , Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
> 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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