-=> Richard Webb wrote to Nancy Backus <=-

 NB> And that's about the only use I make of a cell phone in a grocery
 NB> store, as I told Bob...  There just aren't pay phones around anymore
 NB> like there used to be, as we were commenting on not that long ago
 NB> here...  ;)

I miss pagers. As an on-call IT person, back in the old days, people paged
you, gave you a telephone number to call on, and you spoke to someone. You
were both engaged in the process, and it filtered out a lot of unnecessary
after-hours "urgencies".

Nowadays, anyone can email you at all hours of the day or night and expect
that some sort of game-clock starts as soon as they hit "send". Regardless
of whether or not their request is valid, sent to the right person, able to
be accomodated, reasonable, &tc.

Pagers needed pay phones, though. Part of the beauty of pagers was being
able to be out and about with a pager and a handful of dimes.

Cheers,

--kW





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