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re #2: They can leave a voicemail; I'll listen to it and call back if necessary.
by kd5bjo 8y ago
re #2: They can leave a voicemail; I'll listen to it and call back if necessary.
- linsomniac 8y agoUsually works well, but when you get caught in a cycle of always missing each other it sucks. Usually this is a business or similar where they call and are making a bunch of calls, so by the time I call back they are on the line with someone else.
- tones411 8y agoGoing back and listening to voicemails of spam is more time consuming than just answering it at the time it comes in.
- kd5bjo 8y agoAt the moment, the percentage of spam calls that bother to leave a message is low enough that it seems to work out. I also don't have to worry about the impoliteness of hanging up when it's a live human on the other end, and can time-shift the annoyance to when I'm not in the middle of something.
- paulie_a 8y agoI wish I could ban the hundreds of 2-4 second voicemails I get a week. actually ban the number too.
- toss1 8y agoHmmm, as interrupting to answer at the time has the additional overhead of task/context switching, I'd say it's more. If you just switch to/from the voicemail context once for 10 messages, the cost is only 10% of the cost for real-time answering.