Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mcnc!ecsvax!paleo From: paleo@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Constantine A. LaPasha) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Voice Mail Summary: potential hazard to net bandwith? Message-ID: <6030@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> Date: 4 Dec 88 01:10:06 GMT References: <3044@sugar.uu.net> Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service Lines: 24 In article <3044@sugar.uu.net>, karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer) writes: > OK, so the nExt has got voice mail, right? Well, our favorite machine can > do it too. All Amigas ever sold are capable of playing back voice mail. > Cheap digitizers exist. Perfect Sound comes with source code, tho' [[...good stuff omitted...]] > -- uunet!sugar!karl, Unix BBS (713) 438-5018 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 add anything to the mailing beyond the text rendition, especially considering the extra bandwidth required to move the stuff? Further, do you really want to hear those flames in person? [C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C ^^^^^^ ^^^^ Maybe we should add video mail (:-) ... anim files of digitized sequences... nah, I'm not sure if I could handle looking at this bunch (:-). -- ===================================================================== Kostya LaPasha paleo@uncecs.edu or paleo@ecsvax.uncecs.edu === NCSU takes no responsibility for anything above === ==================... beware of root nematodes ...==================