Re discriminating voice from data callers:

BG> Precisely, although a software producer could always
BG> utilise V.8 Call Indicate tones for that purpose, I guess...

IS> Yes, and/or V.25 calling tones on many pre-V.34 modems too

 BG> Sure, the tools are there; it's just a matter of correctly
 BG> utilising them.

Yes, but fools continue to be so ingenious .. :)

IS> inbound, especially on a publicly accessible system like BBS or mailer,
IS> there's no way you could ever train every caller, or even expect them to
IS> have it available, or enabled.

 BG> Quite so, the opportunity may have already been and gone.

I'd say so, with current modem technology and distribution.

 BG> By the same token, I wouldn't even begin to suggest what
 BG> will become of modems within the next few years, and with
 BG> digitised and multiplexed signals being able to handle
 BG> multiple types of data simultaneously, call discrimination
 BG> may be largely unnecessary.

Indeed.  From what I see from Europe, widespread ISDN availability makes
the whole thing a different game altogether.  Despite Telstra having
stubbornly dragged its heels on ISDN, keeping it even now for the
relatively rich, the pressure of competition post-deregulation should
ensure that the same sort of thing that's happened to the price of internet
access will occur with ISDN availability and affordability before _too_
many more years have passed ..

IS> keep coming up .. hey, I might even get around to trying
IS> inbound fax on the mailer here soon :)

 BG> Get a lot of faxes via your BBS line, do you Ian?  :)

Well, I'd like to be able to receive and send faxes here, yes.  My present
modem doesn't do fax at all.

Cheers, Ian

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