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By Margalit Fox / The Bulletin
March 3, 2009
A long, long time ago, before the BlackBerry, before the fax machine, even before the answering machine, busy people relied on answering services to get messages. In rooms all over America, rows of women — for they were nearly always women — sat day and night at blinking,....