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Old November 16th 05, 11:05 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,uk.telecom.mobile
Mark Morton Mark Morton is offline
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Default Plan for dealing with obnoxious phone calls on trains?

M. J. Powell wrote:
In message ,
steve writes

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 19:31:14 +0000, Ivor Jones wrote:
I never understand this. Should conversations also be banned. I assume
the
motive is they you get frustrated by only being able to eavesdrop on on
half of the conversation - otherwise the 'campaign' would be about load
conversations not just phone conversations.


The point is that phone users speak more loudly than they would for a
normal conversation.

Mike


Some research suggests that people pay more attention when they only
hear one-half of the conversation:
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20040412.html