mvm question: local operation

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>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Fox <pgf@foxharp.boston.ma.us> writes:

 >> > or, put another way, if i'm at home, and i know there are
 >> messages > waiting, do i have to go to my keyboard to cause
 >> them to be played,
 >> 
 >> Personnaly, I either play the messages by hand with vm to the
 >> telephone line, which will play it to any connected phones
 >> (after dialing a 1 or something to not have the dialing tone),
 >> or to the internal speaker (-s), or I dial from another line,
 >> or I use the new WWW extension, or

 Paul> so there's no way to coerce a modem to go off-hook other
 Paul> than with a ring voltage, eh? (images of toggle switches
 Paul> and little hand-crank generators come to mind... :-) it's
 Paul> too bad you can't program some sequence of DTMF tones that
 Paul> they could listen for (while still off-hook, of course.)

 Paul> oh well. although _i_ could probably get used to doing any
 Paul> or all of those things command oriented things to get my
 Paul> messages, i think it will better preserve household harmony
 Paul> if i go out and buy an answering machine. :-) :-)

 Paul> paul --------------------- paul fox,
 Paul> pgf@foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma)

Some phone companies have a "ring-back" number (that badly overloaded
term again) that, when called, calls you back. If you could get that
ring back number, you could dial it to get it to call you back so your
modem could answer the phone so ytou could use DTMF tones to control
message playback. I do not have this problem, as I have multiple
lines into my house. It is a thought though...

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