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From: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
Newsgroups: comp.society
Subject: Re: Email VoiceMail Phone
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Date: 16 Jul 90 18:22:30 GMT
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George Bray writes:

>  Today, VoiceMail is like a store-and-forward telephone answering
>  machine.  The benefits of vocal cues and inflection are available on a
>  read-it-when-you-want basis.

I was thinking about this last night.  My e-mail archives are in over 100
folders, I can grep through them, and it's easy (and considered appropriate)
to dice up old messages and turn them into new ones.  Voice mail isn't 
currently that functional.  When I can "inc" my voice mail, respond to it 
as easily, archive it if suitable, and grep through it for that important 
meeting annoucement, then it'll be a replacement for e-mail.

In this vein, recently on the Andrew mailing list from Robert Glickstein,
a discussion of why to convert to the Andrew multimedia Messaging System:

...from the home office in PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA:

                   Top 10 Reasons to Convert to AMS

10.  Multimedia
9.  Enthusiastic support from ITC and other AMS users
8.  Bitmapped, glass tty, dumb tty, and emacs interfaces
7.  That "Le Car" is just the jauntiest thing around...  Oh, sorry,
        that's a reason to convert to *AMC*
6.  Mail filtering with FLAMES
5.  Active message features:  Votes, return-receipts, subscription
        invitations, auto-redistribution, etc.
4.  Most up-to-date popular mail system
3.  Bugs:  You find 'em, we fix 'em
2.  Seamless interface with ATK

           ...and the number one reason to convert to AMS:

1.  Annoy your colleagues all over the world with those nasty
        "An Andrew ToolKit view (a raster image) was included here, but
         could not be displayed" messages!

[An Andrew ToolKit view (a ThrillCam ride) was included here, but could
not be displayed.]

Edward Vielmetti