Subj : Weekly nodelist report on noteworthy changes (278)
To   : Dmitry Protasoff
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Sun Oct 06 2024 15:04:24

Hello Dmitry,

On Saturday October 05 2024 23:25, you wrote to me:

 MV>> Nah, Back to roots... it has merits but there are limits. I said
 MV>> goodbye to POTS well over a decade ago when I had not received
 MV>> any incoming calls for five years. For me POTS is history, no way
 MV>> I am

 DP> Sorry, I was a bit busy! Now I am ready to call ;)
 DP> BTW, at the moment I am receiving a new call every 20 minutes. My
 DP> uplink is calling every time new echomail arrives.

Hmmm... local calls are free?

 DP> He've got 9 modem lines, I now have only 8, because 2 modems died
 DP> during extensive tests :( But I'll replace them soon ;)

I would not know where to obtain a modem these days. They are extinct here.

If you still want tp play with modes, you are free to do so of course. But you are not going to have me play along. Technically modem over VOIP is a senseless double conversion. You convert a digital signal to audio. And then you encode the audio to a digotal signal to transport it. At the other end you do the reverse. It is like sitting on a horse in a trailer that is towed by a car. It makes sense to do away with the horse and the trailer and just use the car to go from A to B.

But if it makes you happy...

 DP> It's just 18 hours trip to that location :)

Why can't you run the system at the location where you are?

 DP> Too bad it's not possible to put multiple phone numbers in Nodelist..
 DP> I don't know why The Founding Fathers never thougth about this idea?
 DP> It's so inconvenient.

Inconvenient for who? In the POTS age there never was a need. Phone lines were expensive and for most one line was enough. But in de POTS age every decent phone company had the option to make multiple lines reachable via one phone number.

VOIP has that possibility too.

 MV>> going back. Just like I am not going back to DOS or FLEX. Or
 MV>> Algol or Fortran...

 DP> It's not POTS, actually. One of the lines is from a GPON box, 2 are
 DP> from GSM CSD, and the rest are from SIP. But it's still PSTN (because
 DP> of the E.164 numbers involved), just not POTS.

Ok, it is not POTS, so it is not really going back to the roots. It is just emulating the roots...  ;-)


Cheers, Michiel

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