Bob Jones wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 BJ> I think eventually max needs to be able to take a hand-off from 
 BJ> either mgetty or inetd.

 RJT> Not bink?

 BJ> Correct, not bink.  Bink would also take a hand off from mgetty. 
 BJ> Mgetty is an existing piece of Linux code for answering modems, and
 BJ> should be able to handle handing off to different programs for (a)
 BJ> Fax, (b) FTS based call (i.e. to Binkley), (c) PPP, (d) standard
 BJ> user (normally a shell login, but for us Maximus for the BBS), and
 BJ> possibly (e) voice modem (i.e. answering machine).

Sounds good.  I have one of those voice modems and haven't yet exploited
any of its capabilities at all...



 RJT> This sounds good,  except that I have no particular use for the 
 RJT> distinctive ring feature or caller ID for that matter since the 
 RJT> former isn't offered here and the latter is something they want 
 RJT> me to pay them to refrain from stopping it getting here.  (One of 
 RJT> those weird,  phone company things,  like paying to not be 
 RJT> listed.  :-( )

 BJ> I use distinctive ring to allow my BBS to answer one phone number 
 BJ> and my voice calls to not be answered by the BBS and instead be
 BJ> answered by me, all on the same, single phone line.

I guess the phone company around here likes to collect the money for more
than one line,  instead.  Maybe it's a matter of population density,  or
something, they provide that capability when they don't have all that many
actual wire pairs left to offer people?

 BJ> Allowing for supporting Caller ID and/or distinctive ring doesn't 
 BJ> *require* the need for eitheer or both.

True.

 BJ> If you wanted the computer to screen all calls (voice / data / fax)
 BJ> you wouldn't need the distictive ring that I'm using.  Just use a
 BJ> modem capable of voice,  data and fax. 

Got one.

 BJ> Let the computer "take a message" or allow touch tones from a 
 BJ> voice caller to have the computer "ring" your phone for you to 
 BJ> pick up....

 BJ> I have a seperate box that uses caller ID that screens my voice
 BJ> calls.

I have a couple of those on hand as well.  Don't use 'em,  though.  And
somewhere around here I have some bits of info as to how bink can deal with
that as well.

 BJ> Depending on caller ID on my voice phone line, determines
 BJ> wether my phone actually rings and how many rings you get before my
 BJ> answering machine will pick up the call....  

Sounds good.

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