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 Telephone Chains
Author:Anselm Cramer OSB
Date:Friday, 7th Sep 2001 16:14
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URL:http://www.freepint.com/go/b12664

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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
L. Furlong 11/09/01 09:04 12719