Using a voicemail as an archive is a bad idea. Using an old voicemail? Doubly so. (used to get sued about that, and always won because it was in every contract the the voicemail was NOT an archive system).
CYA and tell them to get all those messages off the old system our they WILL lose them. The hard drive in that old machine will be dying any day now--it's a Toshiba! Could be a week, could be a year, but it will die, and then it will all be gone. Do you have any idea what a lucrative business Toshiba vendors make fixing dead hard drives? And you don't get your old messages back. Use the MixMonitor app to create a connection to the old system and tell them -- in writing -- that someone had better spend some time transcribing all those old messages. They'll probably ignore you, but at least you told them. Jim. > -----Original Message----- > From: Henry Coleman [VoIP-PBX.ca] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: February 23, 2006 11:27 AM > To: TAUG > Subject: [on-asterisk] Don't junk the old system yet! > > I was just about to junk my client's old Tosiba key system > when a staff member said " We'll be able to pick up our old > Voicemail right?" > "Why would you need to" I said in my ignorance "We have to > keep a recording of all the people who might try and take > legal action down the road " > "How many are there?" > "About FOUR HUNDRED" > > The fix is to add an FXS or ATA and connect *Asterisk up to > a CO line on the old system. They can the access the old > Vmail through and *Asterisk extension. > > Have a better one ! > > > -- > > Henry L. Coleman > > www.voip-pbx.ca <http://www.voip-pbx.ca> > > 1 866 415 5355 > > "The Future Is Not What It Used To Be" > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For > additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.0.0/267 - Release > Date: 22/02/2006 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.0.0/267 - Release Date: 22/02/2006
