> Sometimes, I answer knowing that it will be a sales call and wait for the person to come on before hanging up. You can always tell because of all the background noise on the other end but what gets me is how often *nobody* picks up. I should keep a tally but I bet that more than 50% of the time, nothing ever connects. I'm no statistician, but that's not real efficient.

Yes. Having the auto-dialer *not* dial unless there is actually someone there to talk to a customer would work better. How to accomplish this? IR sensors. Weight-activated seats. Maybe they dial when the tm picks up the receiver, or something. Little things like that that let fewer people be annoyed because of such calls due to fewer going out, and they can actually *attempt* to do business *every* time such calls are made, rather than when they just *happen* to be there.

> Fer"have had one call like Ell's where I was put on hold right away"rick

Nyper"Has an answering machine. Muwhahahaha... "old