>My solution once was a rather... unorthodox answering machine message:
>
><ungodly evil sounding voice from some video game or another>"Who the
>hell are you?"
>
>If they didn't know me personally, they hung up. My personal fave answering machine I had:
<perky voice!> "Domino's! Please Hold!"
My friends left messages. Other people didn't.
I had one guy hang on for about 20 minutes. That was a pain in the ass to deal with.
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Geoff Depew - Mephron
"Big O! Showtime!"