Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-05-27 17:58, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 05/27/2016 08:21 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-05-27 13:04, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 05/27/2016 12:07 AM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
I've tried persuading many of my friends&relations to use VoIP but to be honest, the only people who seem the least bit interested in talking to me on the phone are my doctor/dentist calling to confirm/remind appointments and headhunters who insist on phone interviews, which I consider as lame and useless as email interviews, after all so much of meaningful communication is face to face, non-verbal..
If you (and I) had a real VoIP phone replacing the old POTS in your home, you could do call screening. You could route those calls to a machine asking questions before it decides to bother you with a ring
- or refusing. Just what they do to you when you call them.
I don't know what you problem is. I can do all that. And more. Like re-routing by time of day, different ring tones (particularly for people I know), "follow me", different voice messages for callers I know (e.g telling family, g/f when I'll be home), telling marketeer that this number has been disconnected so they will (hopefully) remove it from their phone books), simultaneous ringing of the various rooms I might be in, ...
And a lot more.
On POTS? I can't, without purchasing expensive equipment. And I don't even know what equipment.
Anton probably has POTS phones connected, but it is his VoIP box that does all that fancy stuff. My old mum has also gone VoIP, but she is having trouble getting the provider to fix the caller-id function. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, sometimes it kinda works. They're starting a petition know. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (18.4°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - dedicated server rental in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org