Sorry Folks !!!!!

Now all those who didn't get an email will feel hurt........

:-)

Yep !!! :((((

Go on then - what plug-in is this ?

(Cue lots of "why bother - use something/anything else' posts :-)

Back in my day, we connected by connecting a telegraph key and a carbon mic to the phone line and had to simulate a 300/300 baud dialup negotiation and we liked it...

Seriously, OE's disadvantages are often harped upon but the fact is, if you tame it, it's not *that* much of a security risk, certainly less than downloading 18 different newsreaders to find one that you like :-) and it's free.

It's a software thing a friend is developing for OE. It just gives some more layout schemes and button placements etc. etc. But he thinks it's going to be the next generation OE. :-) Yeah right. LOL

Eeh, thee had a telegraph key, tha loocky beggar, we had to make do with two brass paper fasteners and a strip cut out of an old baked beans can, the smoke used to rise from our fingernails every time Father changed the accumulator.

Carbon mic, eeh thee didn't know thee was born. We used to dream of t'day when Reverend Hunnings would invent t' carbon granule mic down in Bolton Percy. There we wuz, shouting into our Berliner transmitters and thinking "A Yorkshireman could invent summat better than this".

Owain

He'd be better off developing for Thunderbird - as it's open source development should be easier than a proprietary API, and he won't be left behind when MS release a differently-broken^W^Wupdated one.

Owain

The laugh I have about it Owain, is that he works for MS in the USofA. No wonder the stuff is crap. :-)

You admit to knowing such people? ;-)

Don't mention Thunderbird to him then please. We don't want that broken too.

Owain

It was sometimes possible to dial using a coin on the mic with carbon mic phones. Just rap it at the right speed and number of hits, in some cases R goes low enough to be recognised as pulse dialling. Tried it on a broken phonebox once, worked fine. Have to be pretty quick though.

NT

If it was a serious threat, MS would buy it so that they could break it :-)

Why didn't you just tap out morse style on the phone cradle switch like everybody else ?

Even if they could buy it they wouldn't be able to stop others from continuing development of the code that's already been open-sourced.

Sometimes those are too slow to rise to be able to do 10Hz, or close enough to 10 for the exchange to recognise it. I imagine this was more likey to be true of public boxes, as theyd have to be a lot more robust than home phones.

NT