The first step was to putacallthrough to the London bureau, the instructions read: "It should take you no longer than three minutes for the operator to get you a line, " it hectored.
Similarly, it should know that you do not want to be disturbed by a message from a friend just before the deadline for a report but to putthroughacall from a colleague who is working on the same project.
Audio of the call posted online suggests a woman spoke briefly to the DJs before she put the callthrough early Tuesday morning to the ward where the Duchess of Cambridge was being treated for acute morning sickness.
It could also have told the assistant that Jobs and Weeks had mutual friends and that this was very likely a legitimate call that should be putthrough without delay.
It was in his office, and in the connection his secretary putthrough, that I received acall telling me that -- about an accident which took the life of my wife and my daughter.
Unsurprisingly, laws in California are tougher, disallowing robocalls from being putthrough to a caller until a live human being first asks if the call is acceptable, but there is no clear way to file a complaint to the state when the law is broken (which it invariably is).