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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> p.s. If someone out there is thinking: of course you could do that,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> if would be trivial if you just did 'X', please feel free to share X</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> with me. Otherwise, we'll have to investigate the open pbx project</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> and the possibility of getting some Quicknet cards...</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I have an 8 port conference bridge we can use. Unfortunately</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>I can't provide toll free access. It will be long distance from </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>MN too because I can't bring the PBX. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>If there's going to be more than 8 callers, I have another bridge</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>available that will accomodate 32. I prefer not to use that one</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>though.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>The neat solution would be to use the asterisk.org software to set</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>up a PBX with a SIP stack. Then international folks could just use</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>the Internet to participate. I've never used Asterisk though, so</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>it's hard to say how much work would be involved setting that up.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Is there a local LUG that would be willing to set something like</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>that up? I imagine there's some geek in MN with all the equipment</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>in his closet.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>-brian</FONT>
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