[Foundation-l] Wikipedia songs

[Chad]

Likewise. If it's anything other than soft background music, I usually
put the phone
down and check back every so often. Callers don't listen to the songs
put on hold
music anyway.

Chad

On Jan 28, 2008 12:43 PM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> Erik Moeller wrote:
> > Our IT manager, Rob Halsell, came over to San Francisco this weekend
> > to set up the phones in the new Wikimedia Foundation offices. We're
> > switching to an open source telephony solution based on Asterisk.
> > Obviously, every phone system needs "on hold" music.
> There's nothing obvious about that unless your intention is to annoy
> people.  A lot of this elevator music makes me want to hang up.  The
> upbeat stuff is the worst.  If people must endure this kind of torture
> make it low volume Gregorian Chant or meditation music.
>
> If I want music I'm quite capable of turning on the radio or starting a CD.
>
> Ec
>
>
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