Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating

Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating While this isnt a service I would personally use, I would just like to make a couple of points.First of all, post 6 made me laugh. What alternate universe are you living in that would make you think that the NFB would approve

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Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating Hi all,After some downtime caused by my phone number provider, this service is now finally back up and running again. Sorry to all those who tried to call in! Should this ever happen again, I will be switching providers. Please pass

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Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating I just created an account and have absolutely 0 matches. Guess theres nobody in my age range URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=188498#p188498 ___ Audiogames

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Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating @shuteye: While there are definitely a few people in the system, we are nowhere near the numbers I am aiming to see eventually. Lets hope word of mouth is effective!Kind regards,Philip Bennefall URL: http://forum.audiogames.net

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Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating hey phillip i really like that concept i wouldnt mine try it out would you be interested in selling me a copy of it please let me know thanks URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=187925#p187925

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Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating hey phillip i really like that concept i wouldnt mine trying it out would you be interested in selling me a copy of it please let me know thanks URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=187925#p187925

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Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating Its not for sale. I may well give it a try since I tend to prefer to hear a girls voice rather than just text. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=187960#p187960

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Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating @shuteye: Thank you so much for those kind words! This was a very fun project to work on, and if it turns out to be useful to some people then all the better. Currently we have just under 40 users, though not all of them have

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Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating @Dark, should there be a notice that the number was removed or not? If a stalker noticed that the number was removed, wouldnt that make them think that they, after reading your post, did leave out their phone number? URL: http

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Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating Philip, on behalf of the many, many older or newly blind clients I train on a weekly basis, thank you! I will be telling them about BlindDateLine within the next week. All of you detracting from what Philip has done, keep in mind

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Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating Moderation! @hhurstseth405, giving out your private phone number on the internet is not only a really bad idea! you risk everything from telimarkiting to stalkers being able to phone you, or even being able to track you through your

Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating

Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating Hello guys I do like the line. I will tell you that it sounds like a linux asterisk server. Anyway Im VI my self so talking to sighted girls is hard so I think this would be good. 1323-4312870(317) 643-0713. That is my number

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Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating Im sure everyones heard of the term blind date, the query here was whether there was a double meaning with it in regard to visual impairment. Essentially they wanted to know whether it was just blind date or blind blind date. URL

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Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating Ah, good. Just wanted to make sure... URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=185481#p185481 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin

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Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating If anyone truly shuns company from the non visually impaired I would be very, very alarmed. Another matter entirely are those who only seek VI people on internet discussion media, sometimes for valid reasons and sometimes not. While

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Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating Hi,.I like the idea of the new phone service. Not something which Ill spent hours on, but I like the concept. Ill check it out if I can get a client working on my computer for free. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php

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Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating Hi all,I must say, the point about others not having computers, well, now that you put it that way, I can certainly agree with this. Unfortunately I dont think Ill be able to convince the ones I know to have a look at this line

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Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating At nocturnus: In short, im sorry i jumped the gun a little in my previous post. Sometimes, as you know, context is really hard to grasp when using a screenreader. What may fully be intended as observations of one persons behalf

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Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating I wanted to share with yall, who are still confused of why the name was picked, please see the following official definition:blind datenounnoun: blind date; plural noun: blind datesa social engagement or date with a person one has

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Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating Ive always wondered how people made their own telephone network, but it seems you need a lot of technological skills to do it. I fond an article on How Stuff Works which explains how to build your own telephone network. URL: http

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Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating Im sure not everyone can just do it or they probably would be but my guess is that Philip is using some kind of virtual landline number to SIP service so everything goes through the SIP server ultimately. At least

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Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating More dating services... Im sure you can find better things to do Philip URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=185081#p185081 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list

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Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating Hi,I agree. I myself would just use voice chat and find someone, rather than a date line.Im very sad to say this, but I cant help but feel... disappointed. With all this modern tech, this... is what youd come up with? I dont mean

Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating

Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating Wat ust a minute. Why are things based on trends? Trends are for losers, in my opinion. You know what they say, here today, gone to-morrow. What makes dating systems exclusively for the 1990s? Is it because people of newer

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Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating I let the folks know on twitter... So will have to see how things go.This may truly take off to be honest... And not everyone wants to use skype folks, or cant. Just saying.Ah, some places that may be good for extra phone numbers

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Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating Philip, I for one like this idea. I am looking forward to checking this out. I can see from other posts on the topics that some are really not keen on this idea of a blind dating phone service, but I do think it could be another

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Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating Id also like to point out that no one has gone after Apple. Listeners of the maccessibility podcast will know that the NFB resolution is an internal matter not a condemnation, it is a goal to encourage accessibility within a broader

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Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating I think this is a great idea for those who dont have the privlage of modern technology. Not to mention, nothing like hearing someones voice instead of poking around on dating sites, or hoping someone might contact you from one

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Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating Hi guys,Ive been following this thread with interest, and would like to make a few brief comments. First, thanks a ton to those who are trying it out! Im really enjoying watching the database grow.Now, regarding some of the other

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Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating Personally, what simultaneously frightens and saddens me is how much blind people feel the need to proceed as if the rest of the world doesnt really exist. Perhaps this is why every time I come back to this site I usually feel like

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Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating At nocturnus: Personally i have seen this argument come up here and there on this forum for a while. Blind people are never going to fit in with the sighted world if they dont come out of there shell. I think the critical point

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Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating At nocturnus: Personally i have seen this argument come up here and there on this forum for a while. Blind people are never going to fit in with the sighted world if they dont come out of there shell. I think the critical point

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Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating @Nocturnus: Well said. I definitely agree with the above. And to clarify a little, the title that I chose actually has nothing to do with blindness as such. The title is meant to be read The (blind date) line. If blind people use

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Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating Hello.I wasnt going to post this, but I decided I will.This is probably going to be somewhat of a rant. regarding posts 5 and 6, I fail to comprehend why it is necessary to bash Philips work simply because a large number of people

Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating

Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating Hello.I wasnt going to post this, but I decided I will.This is probably going to be somewhat of a rant. regarding posts 5 and 6, I fail to comprehend why it is necessary to bash Philips work simply because a large number of people

Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating

Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating Hello.I wasnt going to post this, but I decided I will.This is probably going to be somewhat of a rant. regarding posts 5 and 6, I fail to comprehend why it is necessary to bash Philips work simply because a large number of people

Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating

Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating Hello.I wasnt going to post this, but I decided I will.This is probably going to be somewhat of a rant. regarding posts 5 and 6, I fail to comprehend why it is necessary to bash Philips work simply because a large number of people

Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating

Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating Hello.I wasnt going to post this, but I decided I will.This is probably going to be somewhat of a rant. regarding posts 5 and 6, I cant see why it is necessary to bash Philips work simply because a large number of people do not use

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Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating Thank you for clarifying, Phil. Your post, while short, was certainly full of insight and helped me to understand what you were after.@arq,Because apologizing for what I stated above would compromise precisely what I stated above

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Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating Thank you for clarifying, Phil. Your post, while short, was certainly full of insight and helped me to understand what you were after.@arq,Because apologizing for what I stated above would compromise precisely what I stated above

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Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating Thank you for clarifying, Phil. Your post, while short, was certainly full of insight and helped me to understand what you were after.@arq,Because apologizing for what I stated above would compromise precisely what I stated above

Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating

Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating I do tend to find the lack of inclusivity, which is why I rather find places and groups that look at the situation as a whole rather than with what they only have For one to be successful, in my opinion, one must see things from

[New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating

[New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating Hi all!For the last couple of weeks, Ive been working on a really fun pet project. I have built a little phone system that I call the Blind Date Line. You choose some criteria for the types of people youd like to talk to, and optionally

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Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating Hmm, curious. How does profile identification work? I notice theres no online signup so I assume theres some kind of over the phone registration? Does it just give you a numeric user ID to enter when you call?The biggest issue I