[CS-FSLUG] Telephone systems

[Jonathan E. Brickman]

The hardware can.  The question is, is the software written and written 
well enough and kept up.  I will try to find out.

J.E.B.

> I may be mistaken, but I believe the intention is for the software to 
> call out, not receive calls as usually works with voice mail. Can 
> these voicemail programs call out?
>
> JSR/
>
> 2009/3/13 Jonathan E. Brickman <jeb at joshuacorps.org 
> <mailto:jeb at joshuacorps.org>>
>
>     Haven't looked in such a direction for a long time, but there used
>     to be a few modem-based voice mail applications for Linux.  One
>     such should fill the bill nicely, and much simpler to handle than
>     Asterisk I would think.
>
>     J.E.B.
>
>
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: "Josiah Ritchie" <josiah at ritchietribe.net
>     <mailto:josiah at ritchietribe.net>>
>     Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 3:46pm
>     To: "A Christian virtual Free Software and Linux Users Group."
>     <christiansource at ofb.biz <mailto:christiansource at ofb.biz>>
>     Subject: Re: [CS-FSLUG] Telephone systems
>
>     I bet that if you knew what you were doing you could accomplish
>     this pretty easily with Asterisk. It would be some custom
>     scripting of the dial plan and maybe more. I'm only somewhat
>     familiar with Asterisk, but know it to be extremely flexible.
>
>     JSR/
>
>     On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Frank Bax <fbax at sympatico.ca
>     <mailto:fbax at sympatico.ca>> wrote:
>
>         Up here in the "Great White North"; we sometimes have a "snow
>         day" when the schools close due to weather.  Some schools have
>         a system whereby they can have automated telephone calls made
>         to all students notifying them of the closure.  Anybody have
>         an idea what kind of software would be used for this
>         application?  Is there something that runs on Linux?
>
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