>>The status is that the message still sounds like "Goodbye". But it may very well that the actual sound is "you have replies", played at nearly double speed. As you know, I use Opera, could it be that Opera does not handle WAV files very well?
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>That could be it. You can also switch to a short sound notification which could avoid the confusion.

It's no problem now that I know what the sound is. I can tell you that I have been sitting deeply focused on a programming problem more than once, when this "goodbye" sound has got me jumping in my chair. :-)