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Be wary of assuming that answer machines will be used. I'm 26 and I've never used an answer machine. Maybe accidentally. I'm probably not going to leave you a message because really few people listens to the message. I'm certainly not going to listen to a message someone leaves me. This is what SMS is for, I think.

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I don't comprehend the thinking behind not listening to voicemails. Why have a voicemail box, then? You're just making anybody who does leave a voicemail think you're ignoring them on purpose. Is it people who didn't purposefully purchase and setup the voicemail feature, but it was automatically enabled?

Some operators have it as default - that's how I got one before. I think operators have stopped doing this now, at least where I live, so it's not a problem anymore.

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