[ih] deterioration of email (was Re: clever usc creation)

[Barbara Denny]

 A phone story.
Even though I have my wireless cellphone service and  land line (POTS) service from the same company,  i cannot call my wireless voicemail phone number from my landline phone.  I get a fast busy signal (reorder tone, not the slow off hook tone). There is nothing wrong with my landline.  I can use the landline for all other calls.  I spent months discussing this with customer and technical  support for both the wireless service and the landline service in the middle of last year. I  discovered this after the wireless provider required my manufacturer to use their voicemail offering instead of what was on my phone for years.  They kept insisting my landline had no problem. Of course  it still doesn't work.  I got the impression it isn't supposed to work but they don"t want to say that. I am in the Bay Area.
barbara

    On Friday, July 31, 2026 at 06:50:24 AM PDT, David Finnigan via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:  
 
 On 29 Jul 2026 1:28 pm, John R. Levine via Internet-history wrote:
> 
> The EU has required instant messaging systems to interconnect, and the
> IETF MIMI working group is developing standard ways for IM systems to
> talk to each other.  It's a hard problem, partly because the existing
> systems weren't designed to interoperate, partly because of, sigh,
> spam.  It's a lot easier to keep spam under control on a closed system
> where you can see who all the users are and block or eject misbehaving
> ones.  If a system has to connect to anyone who asks, you're in the
> same situation as mail and you can expect the same problems.

The same thing that happened to the telephone network in the United 
States. Now anyone can connect anything to the phone network and it's a 
huge mess with lack of accountability.
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