Phone based email
Adil Attari · 1999
As electronic mail is becoming a standard way of communication, the ability to send e-mail even when you do not have physical access to a machine hooked to the Internet is of tremendous convenience. Using a touch-tone phone to dial-in to a machine that will carry on your email delivery seems to be a good solution for many situations. Today in the industry we find products that exploit this idea, yet requiring an additional piece of hardware to seize the text and dialing in to a remote e-mail server. Our approach is to use regular phone handsets to dial to your home machine-supposedly up, and your voice modem monitoring incoming phone calls, will allow you to send an e-mail, and forward each other calls to an answering machine.