David Rysdam wrote:
>
> Gerry Mascarenhas wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone used emacspeak and how reliable is it.
> >
> > I live in a country where 95% of the people cannot afford to own a.
> > computer
What country?
> > However they can afford to make a local telephone call.I
> > thought of using Linux to offer an e-mail service where people could
> > call into an e-mail server and listen to their e-mail.It was suggested
> > that besides various Linux services like
> >
>
> Dumb question: How would these people SEND mail?
They could send mail via the number keys on the phone, have you EVER
looked
at them, they also have letters on them (JK), they could record there
voice
into a .wav and send it to people as an attachment, it would suck
getting
a 25 meg audio file attachment, but it can be done.
> And if they can't, who is sending it to them
> this mail they have to read so badly?
Spam?
>
> --
> My public encryption key is available from
> www.az.com/~drysdam/crypt/rysdam.gpg.html
> and of course www.keyserver.net
mytalk.com has a web site, people can sign up then send and receive
email
though the phone system. It is a toll free number, but you do have to
listen
to a 10 second voice spam, kinda neat I got an account with em. To send
mail
it will record your voice and send it the user in .wav (wave) format.
The bad thing is though, you can only send email to people who have sent
email to
you, ie you can only reply to message, plus who whats a 15 meg audio
file attachment
in their mail box?
You can get mail from anyone, the system will "read" your mail to you,
make sure you
put you have some one send you a email with the line
"lakdsjflaksjfalksjf" in it, kinda
funny how the computer tries to pronouce it :)
Anyway, that will work, it is free, they can send and receive email
without the use
of the computer though something I assume every can get access to. (ie
the phone system,
payphone, barphone, freinds phone, etc.)
Also you could probably get some used terminals or old computers (286,
386) for the price of
shipping and handling or less. Run a serial cable and a com package for
DOS (procomm for example) or linux
and have a bunch of terminals users could login and send/receive email
though pine or elm. Heck you
they could even surf the web via lynx or read news via tin, offer them
the full package deal :)
But then again you would have a bunch of people at your house checking
there email at all hours.
Jack
