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To: Steve Willoughby <steve@ichips.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: Wanted/Offered: FreeBSD voice mail system
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On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Steve Willoughby wrote:

> I've noticed a number of FAX modems on the market now support a voice-mail
> system via Windows software (the software runs in the background on the Win
> box and stores voicemail on the hard drive (I guess), so when a voice call
> comes in, the caller gets the usual answering message played at them ("Press
> 1 to leave a message for John, 2 for Marsha," etc. and their digitized 
> message is stored on the computer).  
> 
> Has anyone considered writing a BSD program to do the same thing, store
> voice mail on a FreeBSD box using one of these modems?  I have an application
> where this would be very nice, but don't want to dedicate a Windows box when
> it could just be a daemon on Unix.  Not to mention the utility of letting
> users retrieve their voice mail on any workstation on the net :)
> 
> Anyway, if this is not planned or being worked on, I'm willing to volunteer to
> do the work myself and contribute the code to FreeBSD.  Assuming I can get
> enough information from the modem companies to know the "special commands" to
> make the modem do those tricks. 
> 
> Let me know if there's any interest in this or if any other developers have
> hints on how to get technical specs out of modem companies.
> 


	This would be a god sent to those with desktop UNIX 
workstations.  I know slick SGI supports these things, but I dunno about 
any other ones that do.  Knowing Solaris' ambitions of being a bussiness 
users friend, must have this as well.  SO what is the word for Fbsd?  I 
still think that it is the best UN*X out there, and would love thise sort 
of thing on my desktop workstation. :) 


							Tamer Ziady