Bob Jones wrote in a message to Bo Simonsen:

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

Not bink?

 BS> Well i don't think.. If i run the BBS, i've no chance to run a 
 BS> mailer too.. I don't know how mutch you know about mgetty..

 BJ> There is a version of GETTY that is supposed to differenciate
 BJ> between Fidonet hand shakes, PPP and regular modem calls, FAX
 BJ> calls, and possibly even a voice (on a voice modem) call.....

I get more calls from other mailers here than anything else,  these days. 
To also have the ability to deal with PPP would be nice.

 BJ> getty normally hands off regular modem calls to a shell.  We could 
 BJ> have getty had it off to a shell and have users login into "max" as
 BJ> a user of the system and then have that shell in to Maximus 
 BJ> (directly) and proceed from there... or we could have getty
 BJ> directly start Maximus and proceed from there.....

Or bink hand off to it?  :-)

 BJ> My goal would be to eventually have Fax, modem and Voice answering
 BJ> machine all handled via a single modem on a single serial port
 BJ> controlled by getty handing off to the appropriate software.  I'd
 BJ> also like getty to handle caller ID and distictive ring
 BJ> information, and be able to act according to my wishes.

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

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