asterisk users - Mar 2005 - Why is asterisk's voice mail called comedian.

Hi list,

Is this supposed to be a joke? It doesn't sound very professional.

comedian
      n 1: a professional performer who tells jokes and performs
           comical acts

Moby Thesaurus words for "comedian":
    banana, buffoon, burlesquer, card, caricaturist, choreographer,
    clown, comedienne, comic, cutup, dramatist, dramatizer, dramaturge,
    droll, epigrammatist, farcer, farceur, farceuse, farcist, fool, ...

There was a short discussion thread on this on / about 8/31/2004 but
no real answer was ever given.

Some people supposed that since a competing voicemail sounded the same
(Meridian) that there might have been some correlation between the two
but who knows.

I'm sure you're more than welcome to hire the same voice talent and
make the voice prompt say whatever you'd like it to say :P

> Is this supposed to be a joke? 
Probably.
> It doesn't sound very professional.
Then change it -- all you need to do is re-record the greeting, or have
Allison do it.

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:27:17 -0500, Steve Clark <sclark@netwolves.com>
wrote:
<snip>
> It doesn't sound very professional.
> 
> comedian
>      n 1: a professional performer
<snip>


What's not professional about that? :)

Comedian is probably a play on 'Meridian Mail' by Nortel.

It makes for a great laugh when you drop in a replacment for the Nortel
VM system with Asterisk.

 

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Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Why is asterisk's voice mail called
comedian.

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:27:17 -0500, Steve Clark <sclark@netwolves.com>
wrote:
<snip>
> It doesn't sound very professional.
> 
> comedian
>      n 1: a professional performer
<snip>


What's not professional about that? :)
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