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[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of John Posada
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Subject: Re: Customer-friendly word for landline
Telephone?
What's wrong with landline?
Alan
On 4/02/2011, at 10:25 AM, Butler
Maybe we should refer to mobile phones as PANS: Postmodern Ambulatory Nattering
Systems. Then we can have POTS and PANS.
Nadine
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From: Everette, Dimi dimi.evere...@polycom.com
Subject: RE: Customer-friendly word for landline
...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of John Posada
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To: Alan T Litchfield
Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com; Butler, Darren J CTR USAF AFMC WR-ALC/ENGLTB
Subject: Re: Customer-friendly word for landline
Maybe nothing, just exploring alternative...look like there really
Why is my plant ringing? ;-)
Yeah, I've worked in telecom but even then I found the term amusing.
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Everette, Dimi
dimi.evere...@polycom.com wrote:
Hmm...we use POTS (plain old telephone service) but that probably won't work
for 6th graders! :)
--
Bill Swallow
On 04/02/2011 9:32 AM, Writer wrote:
Maybe we should refer to mobile phones as PANS: Postmodern Ambulatory
Nattering Systems. Then we can have POTS and PANS.
Nadine
When I worked at Nortel, we already had both POTS and PANS as acronyms.
(I just can't remember what the latter stood for,
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 08:52:46 -0800
From: s...@leximation.com
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Customer-friendly word for landline
Keep in mind your underlying reason for trying to differentiate between
different types of phone systems. Just because a phone is wired
.
Regards,
Z
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[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Scott Prentice
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 8:53 AM
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Customer-friendly word for landline
Keep in mind your
term as needed.
Regards,
Z
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[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Scott Prentice
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 8:53 AM
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Subject: Re: Customer-friendly word for landline
Keep
...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Syed Zaeem Hosain
(syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 10:21 AM
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Subject: RE: Customer-friendly word for landline
There is also a Federal Standard on the topic, by the way:
http://www.its.bldrdoc.gov
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Scott Prentice s...@leximation.com wrote:
Keep in mind your underlying reason for trying to differentiate between
different types of phone systems. Just because a phone is wired doesn't
mean that it's POTS .. an IP-based phone system may look just like a POTS
To Vonage and Comcast it is.
Keep in mind your underlying reason for trying to differentiate between
different types of phone systems. Just because a phone is wired
doesn't mean that it's POTS .. an IP-based phone system may look just
like a POTS system, but technically, isn't (is VOIP
: Scott Prentice; framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Customer-friendly word for landline
On Feb 4, 2011, at 9:59 AM, Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
wrote:
Regardless of which, we _sometime_ refer internal people (and
customers) to this:
http://www.amazon.com/Newtons
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[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of John Posada
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To: Fred Ridder
Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Customer-friendly word for landline
To Vonage and Comcast it is.
Keep in mind your underlying reason for trying
On Feb 4, 2011, at 9:59 AM, Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
wrote:
Regardless of which, we _sometime_ refer internal people (and
customers) to this:
PANS = Peculiar and Novel Services. Or, Pretty Amazing New Stuff
(according to Harry Newton, used to describe ISDN).
--Karen
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Maybe we should refer to mobile phones as PANS: Postmodern Ambulatory Nattering
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Nadine
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Keep in mind your underlying reason for trying to differentiate between
different types of phone systems. Just because a phone is wired doesn't mean
that it's POTS .. an IP-based phone system may look
Desk Phone?
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Telephone?
What's wrong with landline?
Alan
On 4/02/2011, at 10:25 AM, Butler, Darren J CTR USAF AFMC WR-ALC/
ENGLTB wrote:
Desk Phone?
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non-mobile
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Desk Phone?
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[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Alan T Litchfield
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Subject: Re: Customer-friendly word for landline
Telephone?
What's wrong with landline?
Alan
On 4
But I don't have a Desk Phone. My phone is on the kitchen counter.
:-)
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Desk Phone?
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Maybe nothing, just exploring alternative...look like there really
aren't any...thanks anyway
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Alan T Litchfield a...@alphabyte.co.nz wrote:
Telephone?
What's wrong with landline?
Alan
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Subject: Re: Customer-friendly word for landline
Telephone?
What's wrong with landline?
Alan
On 4/02/2011, at 10:25 AM, Butler, Darren J CTR USAF AFMC WR-ALC/
ENGLTB wrote:
Desk Phone?
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From: Alison Craig alison.cr...@ultrasonix.com
Subject: RE: Customer-friendly word for landline
To: Alan T Litchfield a...@alphabyte.co.nz, Butler, Darren J CTR USAF
AFMC WR-ALC/ENGLTB darren.butler@robins.af.mil
Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com framers@lists.frameusers.com
Not exactly accurate, but funny all the same.
(I also learned a new word: retronym).
Nadine
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From: Alison Craig alison.cr...@ultrasonix.com
Subject: RE: Customer-friendly word for landline
To: Alan T Litchfield
I always say, You learn something new every day. Two things, if you're not
careful.
Nadine
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Subject: Re: Customer-friendly word for landline
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Date: Thursday
...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Writer
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 5:55 PM
To: Alan T Litchfield; Darren J CTR USAF AFMC WR-ALC/ENGLTBButler; Alison
Craig
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Subject: RE: Customer-friendly word for landline
I looked up landline in Wikipedia (s...don't nag). One
At 01:38 PM 4/02/2011, Ann Zdunczyk wrote:
I worked for Western Electric/ATT/Lucent as a technical writer and I am
very familiar with POTS!!! It is what we called them.
That label is on one of the sockets on my Belkin ADSL router, which supports
VOIP. I had to look it up to discover that it
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Subject: Re: Customer-friendly word for landline
Maybe nothing, just exploring alternative...look like
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