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vlahos@cubism.portal.com (Harry Vlahos) writes:
> How is someone supposed to do a sophisticated answering machine
> program if you cannot at least duplicate the current functionality
> of a $50 answering machine ?  I too was disappointed that you cannot
> do DTMF detection on POTS lines.  I am willing to shell out the money
> to buy ISDN Extender only if I can use it on a POTS line until
> I have something else to connect to using ISDN.  I believe that the
> POTS appliations far outweigh any ISDN application (at this time).
> I don't know anyone else besides the phone company that has ISDN !!!

Funny thing, on this topic. The 3.0 Sysadmin relase notes say:
	Release 3.0 currently supports AT&T and Northern Telecom
	switches.  Future releases will support European and 
	Japanese switches.
So it seems that in the US, where according to you nearly no one is  
using ISDN the ISDN kit can be fully used wheras in germany where ISDN  
is in a much further state of use (nearly every major west-german city  
has ISDN by now) it's totally unusable.

For me it would be absolute no problem to connect to my mail/news feed  
via ISDN and NeXT, both are available on both sides of the connection,  
but a little peace of software inbetween is missing :-(.

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