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From: Will Kemp on 29 Mar 2008 11:25
On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:59:29 +0100, Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:

> Have you (ever) tried to use Voice over Email?

That sounds suspiciously similar in principle to IP over carrier pigeon
(RFC 1149)!

See http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149 for more details.

The closest i ever got was when i considered implementing UUCP over SMS
when i was working in East Timor in 2000!

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From: Andrzej Adam Filip on 29 Mar 2008 11:41
Will Kemp <Will(a)xxxx.Swaggie.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:59:29 +0100, Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:
>
>> Have you (ever) tried to use Voice over Email?
>
> That sounds suspiciously similar in principle to IP over carrier pigeon
> (RFC 1149)!
>
> See http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149 for more details.

Is it April Fools' Day RFC? :-)

> The closest i ever got was when i considered implementing UUCP over SMS
> when i was working in East Timor in 2000!

Voice over Email makes a lot of sense for people
"less skilled" in using keyboard.

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-- Rhett Buggler
From: Owain on 29 Mar 2008 12:13
Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:
> Voice over Email makes a lot of sense for people
> "less skilled" in using keyboard.

But not much sense for the rest of us.

Owain


From: Andrzej Adam Filip on 29 Mar 2008 14:48
Owain <owain47125(a)stirlingcity.coo.uk> wrote:

> Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:
>> Voice over Email makes a lot of sense for people "less skilled" in
>> using keyboard.
>
> But not much sense for the rest of us.
>
> Owain

So you have moved from "I will not implement because I do not know"
to "I will not implement because I do not need it"?
Thank you for making us know about such very important change ;-)

The idea waits for early implementators and early adopters.
You have declared yourself as none of the above.

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[pl>en Andrew] Andrzej Adam Filip : anfi(a)priv.onet.pl : anfi(a)xl.wp.pl
Such efforts are almost always slow, laborious, political, petty, boring,
ponderous, thankless, and of the utmost criticality.
-- Leonard Kleinrock, on standards efforts
From: Owain on 30 Mar 2008 11:32
Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:
>>> Voice over Email makes a lot of sense for people "less skilled" in
>>> using keyboard.
>> But not much sense for the rest of us.
> So you have moved from "I will not implement because I do not know"
> to "I will not implement because I do not need it"?
> Thank you for making us know about such very important change ;-)

When did I ever say ""I will not implement because I do not know" ?

> The idea waits for early implementators and early adopters.

They said that about walking across the Channel in a big plexiglass ball.

> You have declared yourself as none of the above.

Voice is really bad for interoperability. It's bandwidth hungry and
difficult to convert reliably into other forms. Text, on the other hand,
can easily and reliably converted into voice, or tactile, or Morse, or
whatever.

Sometimes lowest common denominator is not a term of abuse.

Owain


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