[pm-h] MMS for Landlines

[Mike Flannigan]

This brings back memories.
I remember a Perl guy who had a habit of filling
up the Inbox of anybody he took a disliking to.
For some unknown reason he took a disliking to
me - imagine that :-)  I had to write a script,
not Perl as I recall, that signed on the modem
every 15 minutes, downloaded the e-mails, and threw
away all his e-mails.  That went on for about a week
and then he finally quit when it never filled up.


Mike


On 1/29/2019 1:50 PM, Julian Brown wrote:
> In days long past, I wrote code to interact with modems, including 
> dialing and connecting via SLIP or PPP, but also to send audio messages.
>
> Unfortunately it was on Windows and at a previous employer so I no 
> longer have access to the code, and I do not remember the details.  
>  Modem work is definitely doable but so old it may not have stack 
> overflow help for you.
>
> Julian
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 12:00 PM Michael R. Davis <mrdvt92 at yahoo.com 
> <mailto:mrdvt92 at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>     Fraser,
>     > play the audio file when the land line is answered.
>
>     Twilio supports this service. I don't know their rates but they
>     are very competitive on SMS rates. I wrote a Twilio SMS driver on
>     CPAN.
>
>     If you have hardware like a RAS (e.g. Patton) you might be able to
>     do something without the middleman service but I doubt it would be
>     as cheap as what Twilio provides.
>
>      I looked into doing something like this over a modem at one
>     time but it did not seem possible.
>
>     Michael R. Davis
>     mrdvt92
>
>     CPAN mrdvt
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