friendly messages

[Brian Westley]

>Cryptic is in the eye of the beholder. Consider a voice-communications
>system which required you to type in 7 to 10 digit strings to
>establish virtual circuits! AT&T has done fairly well with this
>design, and it's not obvious that any change would be for the better.
>	-Barry Shein, ||Encore||

It's easy to do better; phone USED to work better.  You picked up
the phone and said "John Q. Public, please" and that was all.
I bet phones will do this in the future, only you'll be talking to
a voice recognition circuit instead of a human.  It'll also know
who YOU mean if you ask for "John" or "Mom" or whomever.

Merlyn LeRoy