Re: OT: real 2 line phone vs. 1 line and call waiting

[Lyle Giese <lyle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brian J. Murrell wrote:

On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 08:23 -0500, Lyle Giese wrote:
  

   
1) a two line phone can register with two different * servers or sip 
carriers.
    

Indeed.  But if I only had the one * server which itself registered to
my carriers...

  

2) It's easy for both incoming and outgoing to separate business from 
personal calls. (ie line1 is personal, line2 is business)
    

Yeah.  Given this is a home office phone though, that I even route the
house calls to it is just a convenience for when I am in the home
office.  IOW, if I'm in the office, I almost always want to answer it
vs. if I am at a personal/house phone, indeed, I may not want to answer
business calls, but this is not the case...

  

3) It's easy for a two line phone to register to two different accounts 
on * and then subsubscribe to two different MWI's on different VM 
boxes
    

Ahhh.  Now this is an interesting possibility.

  

(again goes back to seperating business from personal or your VM 
from your significate other's VM)
    

Ahhh.  Indeed.

This use case is worth considering.  Although, really, I want to migrate
to VM in IMAP so that I don't even (have to) use the phone to know there
is VM or listen to/delete it.  I would use my e-mail client which is my
preferred interface.

  

I have never been convinced that VM via email is a convenence.  You have to use the loudspeakers on the PC or headphones, which is not as convenient as a handset.  Not to mention the privacy issues/problems using loudspeakers for VM.  Do you want your kids/wife overhearing your customer that is upset with you?

I find that the email notification is more than enough to know who called and many times why without listening to the actual message and deciding how urgent it is to listen to the message or deal with it.

In any case, this one is an interesting benefit.

Not sure I'm convinced enough yet though.  That said, thanks for the
input Lyle, I really appreciate your thoughts on that.

b.

  

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