While we wait for all the carriers to get on board with nixing their endless, unhelpful voicemail pre-beep messages, we've already got instructions from Sprint on how to disable it for your own particular voicemail box on that network.
It's pretty easy:
Call your voicemail.
At the menu, press 3 for personal options.
Press 2 for greeting.
Press 1 to change the greeting.
To enable / disable the instructions, press 3.
Trust us, we did some serious searching for similar instructions on the other major carriers, but had no luck. I