<div dir="ltr">This is primarily for Kwartzlab. We have to deal with agencies (like the government, say) that require us to have a phone number and occasionally phone it when it's important enough. Giving out a single director's phone number isn't helpful and getting a phone for the lab that nobody's around to answer isn't worth it.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 4:07 PM, CrankyOldBugger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crankyoldbugger@gmail.com" target="_blank">crankyoldbugger@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I think the point here, Darcy, is it's hard to get a simple solution like you desire as there's so many many addons available!<div>
<br></div><div>While VoIP and its cousins are great, I still like to have a POTS in the house for when the power goes out, which seems to happen at least twice a year now at least.</div>
</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 26 March 2014 15:47, Darcy Casselman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dscassel@gmail.com" target="_blank">dscassel@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Okay, follow-on question: <div><br></div><div><a href="http://voip.ms" target="_blank">voip.ms</a>, callcentric, etc. have a rather overwhelming number of options. For your favourite provider, what's the cheapest way to *just* get what I want: a public, local Kitchener phone number with voicemail sent to email?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Darcy.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Colin Mackay <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zixiekat@gmail.com" target="_blank">zixiekat@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I use <a href="http://voip.ms" target="_blank">voip.ms</a>, I've used their voicemail over email reliably, but now I use the FreePBX Asterisk distro on a little box. It hasn't let me down. *crosses fingers*<br>
<br></div>I'm amazed at how many voip options are available now.<br></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 9:52 PM, Chamunks Arkturus <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chamunks@gmail.com" target="_blank">chamunks@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">VoIP.ms has a pretty good system for voice to email. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Mar 20, 2014 11:16 AM, "Darcy Casselman" <<a href="mailto:dscassel@gmail.com" target="_blank">dscassel@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div>
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<div dir="ltr">Does anyone know of a service that will give you a phone number and send you voice mail messages by email?<br><br>I know you can DIY this with Asterisk or something, but I'd like some modicum of reliability. <div>
<br></div><div>Darcy.</div></div>
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