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An Atlanta company called SpinVox has a pretty cool program they’re shilling: taking your voicemails and converting them into text, to be read at your leisure. (Note to First Responders: This is inadvisable for 911 calls, so don’t.) In order to draw attention to what they see as a “problem,” SpinVox has come out with a list of the “Top voicemails that people should avoid leaving at all costs.” Space precludes us from listing them all, but you’ll recognize some of the worst offenders: “The Screaming Eagle: The voicemail left in a noisy bar or as a fire truck is passing by”; “The Drunken Dispatch: The drunk dial voicemail”; “The Marathon Message: The extremely long voicemail that never ends”; and our all-time favorite, “The Death March: Leaving a phone number at the end of a long voicemail. If you missed it, you now have to listen through the entire message just to get the phone number.” More details on the technology are at SpinVox.com