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Re: Rigging up a sound card so that it will do voice mail

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 20:45
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In article <1992Aug27.010101.13945@u.washington.edu> gunthar@milton.u.washington.edu (John Jacobson) writes:
>I am thinking about rigging up my computer so that it will :
>    - Determine whether an incoming call is voice or modem

This is kind of difficult, since both an incoming modem and an incoming
human typically will wait for your end to say something.  The modem won't
say anything until it gets a tone it recognizes as a suitable form of
carrier.  The human will probably eventually say "hello?" :-).
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There is nothing wrong with making      | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
mistakes, but... make *new* ones. -D.Sim|  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Rigging up a sound card so that it will do voice mail
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