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| Telephone Chains |
| Author: | Anselm Cramer OSB |
| Date: | Friday, 7th Sep 2001 16:14 |
| Views: | 2,130 (excluding Digests and RSS feeds) |
| URL: | http://www.freepint.com/go/b12664 |
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We have a group of some 200 people associated with the Abbey here. Only about 10% have email, but almost all have telephones. We therefore wish to set up a telephone tree system which will enable us to get information to everyone quite quickly - say the time of a funeral - without any one person making more than two or three phone calls.
This could be done, laboriously, with a list on paper and a pencil. But it strikes me as the sort of job a computer program might do neatly (and again next year when the membership has changed) - I mean, to make the list of who calls whom, and print it out. Possibly I could write one: but by the time I had tested enough to be sure it was working, I could have sent the information round by post.
We would be glad to have some ideas! Perhaps some mathematician...?
Anselm Cramer OSB
monlib@ampleforth.org.uk |
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 | Telephone Chains | | We have a group of some 200 people associated with the Abbey here. Only about 10% have email, but almost ... |
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Anselm Cramer OSB |
07/09/01 16:14 |
12664 |
 | Re: Telephone Chains | | Just to continue the thought above about a numbered list and calling "n*2,n*2+1" - this works well until someone in ... |
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Stuart Cliffe |
12/09/01 12:22 |
12741 |
| | Re: Telephone Chains | | You might also check out the "free software downloads" available on the web; if memory is right, www.zdnet.com is one ... |
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Edward W. Stollery II |
12/09/01 03:27 |
12736 |
| | Re: Telephone Chains | | I suspect that what you're looking for is a program to create a "tree" structure chart.
I would think that you ... |
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Paul Taylor |
10/09/01 09:35 |
12696 |
| | Re: Telephone Chains | | Thanks a lot.
That is the kind of advice I was looking for, and (with my lot) it might work
As for ... |
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Fr Anselm Cramer OSB |
10/09/01 10:08 |
12697 |
| | Re: Telephone Chains | | Some "telco's" offer a conferencing-line feature (or used to before the internet swept away demand), I'm not sure how this ... |
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Ian Field |
08/09/01 00:53 |
12673 |
| | Re: Telephone Chains | | That is interesting - I had not thought of it that way. But I have doubts how well it would ... |
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Fr Anselm Cramer OSB |
08/09/01 05:19 |
12679 |
| | Re: Telephone Chains | | Possibly the most practical approach would be to find out if it is possible to save a voice message, as ... |
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Ian Field |
08/09/01 11:09 |
12683 |
| | Re: Telephone Chains | | I was originally going to suggest it should be easy enough to knock something up on a spreadsheet, contents of ... |
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Mark Q Brunet |
10/09/01 10:27 |
12699 |
| | Re: Telephone Chains | | Draw up your numbered list.
Then person number N rings numbers N*2 and N*2+1. E.g person number 4 rings persons 8 ... |
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L. Furlong |
11/09/01 09:04 |
12719 |
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