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In article <1992Sep30.164432.351@rrz.de> fl1ger@rrz.de (Ralf  Weber) writes:
>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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