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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo, like, if you have a rotary telephone, you can't participate in a Rassman poll
I don't condone telephone solicitation and make every effort to make it disappear, but this one, a Rassman poll, piqued my interest. I wanted to hear the pitch, the spin, look for a push poll question, and all that stuff, but my Luddite lifestyle nixed it.
Who's taken a Rassman poll and what sort of questions did they ask?
Codeine
(25,586 posts)are unlikely to pose a serious statistical problem.
JVS
(61,935 posts)A friend bought a house nearly 10 years ago and there was still an old phone hitched up. It could receive calls but not make them.
robinlynne
(15,481 posts)JVS
(61,935 posts)Also, the other phones in the house were modern and worked fine.
Brother Buzz
(36,212 posts)A quick study of the critical wires, and how they can be switched would have remedied the problem.
robinlynne
(15,481 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,212 posts)Have you ever participated in a Rassman poll?
NutmegYankee
(16,177 posts)Is that a public phone in the center of a traffic circle in Mass?
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)I also have a few push button ones..They have to be for dial vs pulse.
hunter
(38,264 posts)I saw it in a thrift store and had to have it
I used to have a big black AT&T phone, but that's now on my lab bench. I can generate touch tones from the computer, so it's not a problem.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,212 posts)I used to receive a discount for the dial phone service. A couple of year ago, they discontinued it when pulse tone became cheap/easier, but the dial phone is still supported.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)Seriously. The doctor's office calls with a reminder of an appointment, and you press 1 to confirm.
You dial any store, and you have to press a button to do anything. Ditto customer service for anything.
Do you keep it for the novelty? Have the same phone your folks had when you were born?
Brother Buzz
(36,212 posts)My doctor's office still employs real people to talk to.
Our resident teen computer whiz does all that other button pushing on one of his hand held devices.
Wife is almost there with here cell phone skill, and hopefully will step up when our son bolts for college this fall.
I do have the same telephone I grew up with, only I use it the house my grandfather built.
I choose to talk with with real people. The operative word is choose.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)Hekate
(90,189 posts)Bic ballpoint or #2 pencil?
Robb
(39,665 posts)Sorry, I really wanted to win the thread.
I've never been polled, except by absurdist GOP messaging-disguised-as-push-poll stuff.
NutmegYankee
(16,177 posts)Poll_Blind
(23,864 posts)...of close to 10 years ago.
PB
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Just hold your phone mouthpiece near your computer loudspeaker and tell the app the numbers you want to dial.
http://sio.midco.net/dfranklin/phonedial/index.html
Brother Buzz
(36,212 posts)Have you taken a Rassman poll and what sort of questions did they ask?
Hekate
(90,189 posts)As for rotary phones, dh still has one he keeps in the garage. Remarkably, it usually still works when the power goes out taking all the cordless phones to oblivion along with the lights. Just plug the thing in to the phone jack. Last big fire we had out here knocked out all kinds of cell towers in the hills, but the rotary phone kept going until things got really bad.