<sigh> read it thoroughly.
On Tuesday 06 February 2001 00:12, you wrote:
> I just read the man page for ohphone which I got to via the HOWTO
> mentioned. It does NOT do PC-to-phone. It does IP-to-IP, voice over IP.
> This appears to be no different than, again, glorified IRC or IM with voice
> instead of text. It does not ring someone's phone.
>
> Unless I am mistaken (I would like to be), there STILL remains not a single
> PC-to-phone service/app for linux (or Macs).
> ^^^^^
> As I think on this, would not dialing someone's phone from the internet
> require a server somewhere that would take net traffic and route it to the
> phone switch in a certain area? Say I want to call my parents on my PC.
> Using the normal phone system, this is a longdistance call. To make the
> call with my PC and have it be, essentially free, my phonecall would need
> to go to a switch/router/server in my parent's state that would then
> redirect the signal to a local phoneswitch (or some such), making my
> longdistance call from my PC essentially a local call. Is this not how
> net2phone and dialpad is done? Via a server through client software?
>
> On Monday 05 February 2001 11:33, Tricia C. Sesar you wrote:
> > Read this:
> >
> > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/VoIP-HOWTO.html
> >
> > On Monday 05 February 2001 23:20, Praedor Tempus wrote:
> > > OK, I have looked and tried this and that. If you go with Yahoo
> > > messenger, it misleadingly indicates that it will do PC-to-phone calls.
>
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