[NJARC] Gripe of the day

[Pete Malvasi]

What does it matter the voice quality when many people can't enunciate properly anyway. Especially young people.  Many others don't have anything say and the rest I don't give a damn to hear anyway.  Take that for being a crabby old guy.  

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On May 16, 2011, at 14:27, Scott Roberts <ng19delta at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> SAR
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> --- On Mon, 5/16/11, Rob Flory <robandpj at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>> From: Rob Flory <robandpj at earthlink.net>
>> Subject: [NJARC] Gripe of the day
>> To: "New Jersey Antique Radio Club" <njarc at mailman.qth.net>
>> Date: Monday, May 16, 2011, 8:03 AM
>> Just remember 
>> Reply = Poster
>> Reply All = Everyone
>> 
>> _________________________________________________________
>> This would be a perfect Andy Rooney topic.
>> 
>> I am fed up with poor voice quality and the loss of full
>> duplex on telephones.  I get messages from people I
>> can't identify, even when they have said their name. 
>> If you sniffle or there is noise in the background it trips
>> the semi-duplex and interrupts what the other person is
>> saying.  Or if you say something to the other person
>> you end up both listening to dead air and starting over
>> with, "hello, hello, can you hear me now".
>> 
>> KMA
>> 
>> You can have my 70-year-old carbon-based telephone and the
>> landline it is hooked up to when you pry it from my cold
>> dead fingers.  Don't give up your landline if you want
>> to have a decent phone conversation.  Don't take it
>> personally if I ask you to call me back on a real
>> phone.  I am not pissed at you, but at your phone
>> company.
>> 
>> RF
>> 
>> 
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