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klm
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Over the past four days I had occasion to call a govt research
organization on a routine matter. She was away until today, Friday,
so her voice message option picked up my earlier calls, Tues, Wed and
Thurs. Pretty ordinary.
The weird thing is that her voice message responded even before I hit
the last digit. Say the number is 555-4321. By the time I hit '2'
and just as I hit '1' the voice message was already into the the
second or third word. Exactly the same thing happened on all three
days so its not a fluke.
Today I called her and just as I hit '1' she was already on the phone
with "Hi KL. How are you?" I was too flabbergasted, exchanged the
normal courtesies and asked how she knew it was me. Caller
identification. Ordinary enough. Did my business but forgot to ask
how she mamaged to respond that quickly on the instant I punched the
last digit.
She probably wouldn't know the technology. Does anyone here have an
answer?
As I am writing this post I am thinking of this possibility. There is
some uP processing that matches my phone number with my personal ID as
soon as the 4th number (or earlier) is received. If there is no
other phone number combination in memory close to mine then it must be
me calling and it puts the call through even before the remaining
numbers are punched in. If there is a similar phone number then the
uP waits for the first identifier number that is different and then
puts the call through. Since the person I am calling is a back room
type with few outside callers, she has a short frequent caller list,
its easy for her phone ID setting to nail me down right away.
Pretty disconcerting.
organization on a routine matter. She was away until today, Friday,
so her voice message option picked up my earlier calls, Tues, Wed and
Thurs. Pretty ordinary.
The weird thing is that her voice message responded even before I hit
the last digit. Say the number is 555-4321. By the time I hit '2'
and just as I hit '1' the voice message was already into the the
second or third word. Exactly the same thing happened on all three
days so its not a fluke.
Today I called her and just as I hit '1' she was already on the phone
with "Hi KL. How are you?" I was too flabbergasted, exchanged the
normal courtesies and asked how she knew it was me. Caller
identification. Ordinary enough. Did my business but forgot to ask
how she mamaged to respond that quickly on the instant I punched the
last digit.
She probably wouldn't know the technology. Does anyone here have an
answer?
As I am writing this post I am thinking of this possibility. There is
some uP processing that matches my phone number with my personal ID as
soon as the 4th number (or earlier) is received. If there is no
other phone number combination in memory close to mine then it must be
me calling and it puts the call through even before the remaining
numbers are punched in. If there is a similar phone number then the
uP waits for the first identifier number that is different and then
puts the call through. Since the person I am calling is a back room
type with few outside callers, she has a short frequent caller list,
its easy for her phone ID setting to nail me down right away.
Pretty disconcerting.