>>That's exactly it. For a long time ( don't know if you remember my writing to you about it), I thought that whenever I logged into the UT, a voice was saying 'goodbye'. After I turned up the volume, I realised it was 'You have replies'.
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>How can you confuse "You have replies" with "Goodbye"? They are not remotely close, IMO.

When all you can hear is the last word, and it's not real clear, "replies" does sound very much like "goodbye".