Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.96.1000118092955.9412A-100000@ux1.cyberenet.net> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 10:42:18 -0500 From: mailto:tuandbob@CYBERENET.NET Subject: Re: DEVEL-L Digest - 15 Jan 2000 to 17 Jan 2000 (#2000-12) To: mailto:DEVEL-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
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There are several "internet telephony" systems, one of them is "free".
(The do have an ad banner in the operating window, but it's one ad at a
time, and sent at slow data rate so it doesn't interfere with the call.)
It's the service I use. I do not, repeat do not, have any financial
interest in the company. I used it first with an old Soundblaster 16,
half duplex sound card. It was a little choppy, but no worse than a cell
phone on the fringe. When talking to ham (amateur radio) friends, we used
the Push To Talk (PTT) function. PTT eliminated some confusion, but is
not the best method for everyone. The delay runs about a quarter to a half
second, like an overseas call via satellite. I use this service to talk
regularly with friend in Denver and Philadelphia. The drawback is that
the service works only from computer to compter, and does not have an
internet to telephone line partner. Their URL is: www.really-easy.net.
An alternative, which I haven't tried on my computer are a couple of
products by Quicknet, the Phone Jack, and the Line Jack. The Phone Jack
is a card and software to connect a regular telephone to your computer,
the Line Jack is a card and software to connect your PBX to your computer.
I've talked to a Phone Jack, via an internet telephony company. Almost
perfect between San Francisco and northern NJ via the internet and
northern NJ to southern NJ where I live via the normal phone lines. Their
software will work independently between Phone/Line Jack users, and to
regular telephones via internet to phone line interfacing companies like
Net2Phone for a per minute fee. Their URL is: http://www.quicknet.net.
A cautionary note about sending your email address to another email
address. There is a danger that a known good address, yours, will be sold
or traded to a list, subjecting you to possibly unwanted or inappropriate
mail. I be less concerned if a web site was given. That can be checked
using "whois".
Bob
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> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 23:30:04 GMT
> From: SSI Sustainability <mailto:sustainability@HOTMAIL.COM>
> Subject: GREAT NEWS FOR COMMUNICATION
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> Communication is an essential part of development. Unfortunately, the costs
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