use Perl

• Vonage (Score:2)

  by ask (83)

  At Vonage they have a neat feature so you can have an extra number ring at the same time as your Vonage VoIP phone.
  
  Of course it doesn't work well with a out-of-reach or dead cell phone as that will usually just kick you to voicemail.
  
  Some day though, in a future near you, they'll figure it out ...
  
    - ask

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  -- ask bjoern hansen [askbjoernhansen.com], !try; do();
• 90% solution? (Score:2)

  by nicholas (3034)

  ...with half a dozen important messages.

  Is the most important thing here the assumption people make that if they successfully leave a voicemail message, it will reach the recepient, and reach the recipient in a timely fashion? So if you're able to get notification that voicemail has been recorded, that's the most important battle won, as you then know that you need to find your phone.

  I guess in an ideal geek world, the cellphone company would be able to e-mail you a attachment with the audio of the voic
  • Re:90% solution? (Score:2)

    by ask (83)

    Most (all?) of the VoIP providers can email you the voicemail as a WAV file. The cell phone companies should be able to do that too.
    
      - ask

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    -- ask bjoern hansen [askbjoernhansen.com], !try; do();
    • Re:90% solution? (Score:1)

      by Allison (3003)

      I suspect just getting an email every time I get voice mail would be a huge improvement. It would at least remind me to charge my phone.