Phone Logging

[Gerald Combs]

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> On Saturday 10 July 2004 03:48 pm, Oren Beck wrote:
> 
> 
>>The last logger we installed was using a dialogic IVR board - list to
>>customer of $ 1900 !
> 
> 
> I believe you're thinking of commercial caller number delivery, which bypasses 
> the privacy/blocking that normal caller ID does.  Still, that seems pricy!  
> 
> Most modern modems will receive and report caller ID, so if you have a program 
> like mgetty listening, and it's capable of logging, you can keep track.  I 
> was just wondering if there were something more, like maybe an on-screen 
> pop-up or something fun. 
> 
> I got rid of the second line when I took The Wolf's Den BBS offline, so if I 
> set something up it would actually be useful to monitor my voice line.  SuSE 
> has an 'answering machine' package, but it appears to be focused on IDSN.

Several years ago I used to use a package called CID
(http://www.tummy.com/Software/cid) to pop up callerID information on
each of the computers in the house.  You might be able to set up CID for
simple logging, without all of its other bells and whistles.