Re: E-Mail

From: David Andrews (dandrews@winternet.com)
Date: Wed Apr 24 1996 - 17:36:34 PDT


Curtis, You're being a curmudeon again, (grin.) While not necessarily
blindness related thing this system could be useful to people who
traveled a lot without a comuter, or to people who needed to receive
e-mail but didn't have a computer.

David Andrews
ei

On Fri, 19 Apr 1996, Curtis Chong wrote:

> Greetings:
>
> A friend of mine passed along the following announcement to me.
> I don't know what value it has for us, but someone may want to
> check it out. I'm not impressed.
>
> Regards,
>
> Curtis Chong
>
> ================================================================================
>
> "Blind and visually handicapped people will now be able to recieve e-mail over
> the telephone, thanks to a small New Jersey company. The system, developed by
> International Discount Communications (IDT), gives each user an Internet
> address. E-mail sent to the address is converted to voice messages. The user is
> called on the telephone, and the system reads the message aloud, or saves it to
> a voice mailbox. For more information, contact IDT at 201-928-1000."
>
>



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