Hello Tony,

On Sunday July 01 2018 13:03, you wrote to me:

 TL> The only real use I see for VoIP is to get traffic from an Internet
 TL> connected BBS where there is no POTS (as is the case here, where I
 TL> can't get POTS, even if I wanted it), to a site where there is only
 TL> POTS, otherwise I agree, using VoIP and a dialup modem is just silly.

Exactly.

 TL> As I have no POTS only destinations to connect to, I don't run modems
 TL> over VoIP, just straight IP (binkp, telnet, SSH, etc).

Same here. The 'V' in VOIP  is only used for what it stands for: "Voice" ;-)

 MvV>> I too started out with a static IP address. But even those
 MvV>> presumably "fixed" adresses are not for eternity, using a host
 MvV>> name is more flexible. Upating the DNS records is much faster
 MvV>> than updating the nodelist.

 TL> I still have static IPs, there are options, if (1) you look around
 TL> and/or (2) you know the right people. ;)

Here there are options as well. But my "dynamic" address has not changed in
years. Good enough for me. ;-)


Cheers, Michiel

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