I really don't care about Caller ID.  If I don't want to answer the phone, I
won't.  If the caller REALLY wants to talk to one of us, they'll leave a
message, or try my cell phone(if they know that number).  Our current
answering machine works OK, but the message that the caller hears is hard to
understand.  I figured I'd be geeky and play a bit!

Gene

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Hutchins [mailto:hutchins@opus1.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 11:02 AM
> To: Gene Dascher; Kclug
> Subject: Re: VOCP
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gene Dascher" <gedascher@multiservice.com>
>
>
> > Has anyone used the VOCP voice mailbox system
> <http://vocp.sourceforge.net/>
> > ?  Our answering machine is starting to go out, and instead of buying a
> new
> > one, I figured I'd just turn my Linux box into an one.
>
> The packages I've seen are pretty useless as answering machines.  They all
> try to emulate a big Lucent phone switch with voice mail, and fall down on
> the basics of answering the phone.  Feature glut at it's worst.
> Last I knew
> mgetty/vgetty still only supported one or two modems for Caller ID.
>