Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.misc:10882 comp.sys.mac.hardware:10269 alt.privacy:352 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!chalmers.se!mathrt0.math.chalmers.se!d0ess From: d0ess@dtek.chalmers.se (Erik Stenvall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware,alt.privacy Subject: Re: Query: Mac as a smart answering machine Message-ID: <1991Apr13.181516.6422@mathrt0.math.chalmers.se> Date: 13 Apr 91 18:15:16 GMT References: Sender: news@mathrt0.math.chalmers.se (Evald Nyhetsson) Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. Lines: 24 In faustus@tartarus.uchicago.edu (Kurt Ackermann) writes: >I am intrigued by the idea of using a computer as a smart answering machine >to sort out callers, ring differently for different people, leave >different messages for different callers, and such things. >The basic idea would be to give out an access code to a certain group >of callers that would make their calls ring differently, give them a >different message on the machine, etc. >Do such things exist for the Mac? I have heard of Watson boards for IBM-type >machines. Could anyone who knows give me some info on the IBM-type, since I've had similar ideas? Thanks in advance. Erik -- : : : : d0ess@dtek.chalmers.se : Chalmers University of Technology : : Erik Stenvall (D90) : Gothenburg, Sweden : : : :