Subj : IMECHO RULES
To   : Daryl Stout
From : Dale Barnes
Date : Thu Jul 16 2020 12:06:17

 > Dale,
 >
 >DB> Yep, still works.  2.6x is coming along.  Had to dust off everything
 >DB> and remember how it worked.  Think I saw your name in the registration
 >DB> database as well. :)
 >
 >   I really liked it, especially with the selection of
 > colors.
 >
 >DB> Still building out the new 3.x version.  Could be no one ever uses it
 >DB> again but I will.  Heck even working to bring TPBoard BBS back to life
 >DB> here.  LOL
 >
 >   The dial-up line I have is VoIP and not analog, off of a
 > deal that
 > I have with T-Mobile. AT&T had been converting all of their
 > analog
 > lines to VoIP, and they also "screwed my Mom over" before
 > her death,
 > with their poor customer support. They got her to switch to
 > DSL and
 > the VoIP line, but every time there was a power outage or a
 > nearby
 > lightning strike, the DSL modem got fried. As a result, she
 > had no
 > internet, and worse, no phone or 911 service.
 >
 >   So, when I called on the cellphone, I demanded to talk to
 > a
 > supervisor. They hung up on me, and I blew I gasket. I was
 > livid,
 > and when I redialed and got back in, I was told "this call
 > may be
 > monitored or recorded for quality and training purposes". I
 > said
 > "It damn well better be, for the $h!+ I just went
 > through!!". My
 > Mom was sitting there, and I apologized to her afterwards,
 > but
 > said "I can't blame you"....she heard it too.
 >
 >   They were going to make a 90 year old woman WAIT over a
 > week
 > to get a new DSL modem. Well, they said they'd have a tech
 > out
 > in the morning. When I told him what had happened, he
 > exploded.
 > He said "There was no excuse for that!!". He gave us his
 > personal
 > card and private number, adding "if the DSL modem dies
 > again, call
 > me. Either myself, or one of my team will be out within 24
 > hours".
 > He added "this customer mistreatment is all too common". I
 > was
 > praying blessings on him and his family.
 >
 >   But, when I had to put my Mom in a nursing home in late
 > 2018,
 > I called them, and told them to CANCEL
 > EVERYTHING...cellphone,
 > DSL, landline, etc. -- and said "I would NEVER be back".
 > And,
 > it was if the representative didn't care. Of course, my
 > chewing
 > out of them didn't help my personality <G>, but I wouldn't
 > want
 > to go back.
 >
 >   Unfortunately, with the VoIP lines, the old dial-up BBS
 > and
 > fax calls don't work, even with the US Robotics 56K V.92
 > fax
 > modems. If they would, I could reactivate dial-up on the
 > BBS.
 >
 >   With having the internet up all the time (except for
 > whenthunderstorms are in the area, power outages from the
 > high
 > electric use (I hope to install a generator this fall), or
 > the internet goes out), I run Internet Rex in daemon mode
 > for FTN mail runs. Synchronet uses the SEXPOTS add-on for
 > the dial-up lines to get into the telnet BBS, but as noted,
 > I don't think the VoIP lines would work. Otherwise, I'd
 > love
 > to have InterMail online again for dial-up calls.
 >

Sorry to hear about what you and your mom had to go thru. Things have really changed in the last 40 years.

On the VOIP, I have *kinda* been able to get Intermail to work with VOIP using MagicJack.  I had to turn down the speed quite a bit but I have been able to send msgs to both my uplinks the last year with about a 70% rate of working.  I am sure I could tweak it a bit more but with so few phone lines and folks to test with, did not make much sense to keep playing with it.  I have so much other code to review and clean up.


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