small linux based answering machine

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org>

| On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 01:40:25PM -0500, Neil Watson wrote:

| > It also works when the power it out.

| That is also the reason I won't switch to rogers or any VoIP for my
| phone line, and why I have one plain old phone in the house in addition
| to the cordless stuff.

As I understand it, Rogers works very hard to make their VoIP phone
work during power failures.  (Their phone is VoIP, I think, but uses a
different channel from broadband IP supplied to cable internet
customers.)

Their phone boxes include UPS.

When we had a 6-hour Toronto Hydro Electric System failure last
Friday, Rogers came around with generator trucks to power their
whatever-boxes that live on telephone poles (or are they hydro
poles?).  I think my Rogers Cable TV and internet service would have
worked if I had my modem, set top boxes, etc. on UPSes.

Of course Rogers phone service is priced much more like Bell's than
like other ITSPs.
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