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From: paleo@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Constantine A. LaPasha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Voice Mail
Summary: great locally, but not too great for long distance nets?
Message-ID: <6031@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>
Date: 5 Dec 88 02:59:11 GMT
References: <3044@sugar.uu.net> <6030@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> <3051@sugar.uu.net>
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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In article <3051@sugar.uu.net>, karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
> In article <6030@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>, paleo@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Constantine A. LaPasha) writes:
> > Sure we can do voice mail, but even with compression (mentioned above
> > but removed in overzealous editing) - will voice mail cause a LARGE
> > increase in net bandwidth problems?  Will the actual voice recording
> 
> Granted, voice mail has higher bandwidth requirements -- much higher.
> I would not recommend people doing much voice mail on the net.  Within
> the office, over the LAN, or from your house to my house, however, I
> think it could be valid.  Including voice messages on disks along with
 [compression stuff removed]
> 
> The idea is, though, that voice mail is supposed to be one of the super-hot
> new features of the Next (I'm going to stop auto-advertising it by typing the
> name as NeXT) yet an Amiga can be outfitted to do it for about $75 for the
> -- uunet!sugar!karl, Unix BBS (713) 438-5018

Right!  The Amiga can do it now, and lots cheaper too.  With the 
folks programming on the Amiga, the compression business should be
taken care of as well as possible.  My major concern was that the
folks pushing the nexT box (neet machine but I would want different
capabilities for the $$) tout the voice mail thing for LONG DISTANCE
public net based mail, not just local stuff.

I think it's a great idea locally, or on diskettes, but I'm not sure
if we need this on nation wide, and international net distribution.

Since these nExt guys are targeting academic institutions, and they
say how wonderfull it would be to send voice by mail back and forth 
accross the country, who's going to pay (:-).  I haven't seen too
many deep pockets around lately.  

Although mentioned originally in jest (partly), video mail might
also be useful if used judiciously.  But, this too has the
potential for bandwidth troubles (for large scale nets).

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