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								Aaah, the famous Gallic love of technology. Never used minitel myself, 
but I've heard it pre-dated internet sex chatrooms by a long way...

Ray

Fraser Stephens wrote:

>> On 20/04/06, Matt Hamilton <matth at netsight.co.uk> wrote:
>>     
>>> Just cos you have fancy new voice recognition technology, doesn't mean
>>> you need to use it!
>>>       
>
> Just back from a sunny week near Bordeaux. I helped a friend book a
> TGV ticket. We first tried a Wanadoo terminal in the tourist office...
> a bondi blue iMac running system 9 and explorer 4. something. Needless
> to say after 10 mins it was clear the copious javascript on the SNCF
> website was not going to work. Then tried the phone. Voice
> recognition, but with backup of being able to use the number pad and
> after a couple of mins the system said it was transferring me to
> human. 10 mins on hold paying €0.34/min listening to hold music
> interspersed with "thank you for holding" messages.... grrrrr.
>
> The actual booking was painless and even the €1.50 booking fee didn't
> feel bad after spending €8 on the phone and internet calls.
>
> F.
> --
> Fraser Stephens
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