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an·swered, an·swer·ing,
an·swers
v. intr.
To speak, write, or act as a return, as to a question.
To be liable or accountable:
To correspond; match:
To speak, write, or act as a return to; respond to.
To respond correctly to
[Middle English answere, from Old English andswaru. See swer- in
Indo-European Roots.]
- Message Forward / Rewind / Pause-Resume.
- Not unlike accessing a tape recorder.
- AMIS Networking.
- A standard that lets different voicemail systems from different
vendors pass messages back and forth.
- Multiple greetings per subscriber.
- A decent voicemail system should let each user in the system
toggle between at least two greetings — a standard one; and an
"away-from-the-office" one.
- Message forwarding.
- Users can forward messages to other subscribers' mailboxes.
- Broadcast Messaging.
- Users can forward to multiple mailboxes simultaneously.
- Distribution groups.
- Users can set up pre-defined broadcast-messaging groups.
- Messages Appending.
- Lets people record a header onto a received message and forward it
other users
- Messaging Waiting Indication.
- On the phone through stutter dialtone and/or a message-waiting
lamp.
- Pager and Outdialing Notification.
- For remote message notification.
- Private Messaging.
- Wherein callers can enter special PINs to get secret messages out
of subscriber mailboxes.
- Fax integration.
- Wherein subscribers' mailboxes can handle fax as well as stored
voice.
- Voicemail Scan.
- This lets users get into voicemail queue, hit a DTMF command and
hear just the first five seconds of each voicemail message until they hit something they
want to really listen to, whereupon they hit another DTMF and the feature is turned off
and plays that message in its entirety.
- Auto Callback Messengers.
- If the system captures CLID and associates it with a message,
subscribers can hit a DTMF or callback icon and speed-dial the number.
- Auto Re-Queue.
- After an automatic callback from the message stack, this lets
subscribers hit a touchtone sequence to drop back where they left off in their message
queue — ala AltiGen's excellent "Boomerang" feature... not really needed
with visual voice mail GUI, but great for remote message or plain TUI access.
- Visual Voicemail.
- This implies that the voicemail system has been networked on a LAN
or WAN and provides a desktop interface into its use and control.
- Message Monitoring.
- With visual voicemail, from the messaging GUI, you can dump
someone into voicemail and listen to what they're saying. If you like it, then you can
pull the person out.
- Internet Messaging.
- The platform provides browser access to messaging mailboxes and
voice streaming to remote web clients.
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| Main Entry: |
answering service |
| Part of Speech: |
noun |
| Definition: |
telephone message service |
| Synonyms: |
message center, message service, telephone service |
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Source: |
Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First
Edition (v 1.1.1)
Copyright © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights
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