Internally, though, the service has some hard-core fans, according to Mr. Reed, who revealed that a fellow staff member had dedicated a phone line, (301) 763-2222, to do nothing but recite the hold messages, without forcing callers to listen to additional prompts or talk to anyone.
The beauty of the ordinary telephone is that you can doodle, clean your office or even fix dinner while you're chatting, without the caller suspecting that you're not providing your undivided attention.
Since it's a phone call you can easily refer to these things without the caller being aware of what you're doing.
Modern callers, without the silence of a live, human listener on the other end to inhibit them, have no sense of restraint.
"Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts" says The Times "delayed publication for a year" after the White House requested that the article not be published.
As Wyden recalled the history of each scandal, Dickas placed blown-up versions of news headlines on an easel: "Huge C.I.A. Operation Reported in U.S. Against Antiwar Forces, Other Dissidents in Nixon Years," "Senators Reveal U.S. Spies Read Millions of Telegrams," "Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts".
Re "Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts" (front page, Dec. 16): We should not be surprised to learn that after Sept. 11, President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on the international telephone calls and e-mail of many people inside the United States without warrants.
In this paper, we propose a COllaborative Spit Detection System COSDSS)—a collaborative SPIT detection system for the Voice over IP (VoIP) network where service providers collaborate for the effective and early detection of SPIT callers without raising privacy concerns.
In Cumbria, under the PCC's "change programme" to deliver savings of £10m by 2019, the force will be "resolving some issues to the satisfaction of callers without deploying an officer to the scene".
Omar Minaya, the general manager, told callers that without a payroll figure, which he has not received, he would not discuss trading any of his players.
