Porc411 ideas

[coffeeseven]

Reading some of the comments about the effectiveness of the Porc411 system I thought it might be a good idea to open up a dialog about improvements.

My suggestion is to look into the cost of a recorder/dialer. When anyone calls Porc411 the call gets routed to a digital recorder and dialed out to cell phones on the call list. We could pass the hat for the up front and on going costs. I'll be the first to sign up and donate. Please feel free to improve on my idea or post a new one.

[Nat F]

I have asked error about this in the past.....I think there was a good reason why we hadn't done it, but I can't recall for sure what that reason was...so, I don't know. But yeah, that would ROCK!

It's possible to turn it into an automated phone chain, but the costs to do so escalate fairly quickly.  All calls (outgoing and incoming) cost money using the commercial VOIP services like I expect Porc 411 uses.  I'd estimate it's about $0.01 a minute a call.  If there are 100 people on the phone chain it would have cost ~$15.00 to distribute yesterday's call.

-Nat

[Bald Eagle]

Considering what it may be needed for, $15 is cheap.
Have a Porc-411 for non-emergency messages, and a separate Porc-911 for dire communications.

You also don't need to transmit an entire 10-minute message, just an alert that such a message exists and needs to be checked.

[coffeeseven]

Considering what it may be needed for, $15 is cheap.
Have a Porc-411 for non-emergency messages, and a separate Porc-911 for dire communications.

You also don't need to transmit an entire 10-minute message, just an alert that such a message exists and needs to be checked.

I agree with all. Getting to my computer is sometimes a problem. I wouldn't have a problem with making it a subscription service so that I would pay to get the enhanced service. That being the ability to retrieve the message over my cell phone rather than go home to my computer.

[error]

I get Porc-411 messages on my cell phone.

[coffeeseven]

I get Porc-411 messages on my cell phone.

How does one set that up?

[Beth221]

I get Porc-411 messages on my cell phone.

set me up for that, because sometimes i cant get messages via Dan.

[error]

It's easy. Send a picture (any picture will do, even the wallpaper that came with the phone) from your cell phone to porcupine-411-subscribe@ioerror.us .

[Beth221]

my phone, aka "the Brick" slow and old, and i dont know how to send a message like that.... 

Its a nokia 6010 

[error]

Oh, then you need a new phone. Come to think of it Dan needs a new phone too.

[enloopious]

I think there are three words that can sum this up for you:

http://www.asterisk.org/

[yamnuska]

What about a sort of AMP service/deal like with FTL? You pay a set fee a month for the service, as the number of subscribers increases the fee goes down. After the emergency message perhaps an ad comes on. Just throwing out ideas. Seeing how effective Porc411 has been makes my move to NH seem easier, plus the strong Canadian dollar. I would still have to give my info to your scum bag fed gov though, so please, leave the union ASAP.

[Beth221]

Oh, then you need a new phone. Come to think of it Dan needs a new phone too.

what? his is less than a year old!  mine is pushing 5 yrs!

[error]

Yeah, but you can't hear a thing Dan says on his phone.

[Beth221]

ohh, thats not the phone, thats dan, he is a mumbler, big time. i am always yelling at him to speak up.  i think he holds the phone far from his face, and is a low talker, and says typical encoded "dan things" 

he speaks his own language.