Re: KX-T: tarjeta

2005-08-04 Thread George Gleason
Guys- We live in a global economy; Panasonic is a global company, selling PBXs all over the world. There's no good reason to complain when the occasional posting shows up in another language. If you can't read it, just skip it and go on to the next. -George On 04 Aug, 2005, at 5:24

Re: KX-T: Offender

2005-07-27 Thread George Gleason
Hey, I'm not a doctor, wanna' buy some narcotic-analgesic painkillers...? Sorry, Carl, they are subject to fraud charges (civil and possibly criminal) for playing upon a manufacturer's marketing claims and not living up to those claims. Fine print doesn't count either. And if an illegitima

Re: KX-T: Offender

2005-07-27 Thread George Gleason
And that in turn means that if ATHQ.com attempts to sell products for which manufacturer require certified dealer status or equivalent, and they are selling outside of the limits of the dealer agreement terms, then they are engaged in FRAUD, plain and simple. The fraud occurs because buyer

Re: KX-T: selling to endusers

2005-03-13 Thread George Gleason
Re. "Microsoft Live Communications Server" Microsoft?! Yeah we'll make a ton of money on *that*! Fixing crashes, chasing bugs, plugging security holes, deleting telephony-spyware, and figuring out how to filter voice-popups out of telephone calls and VOIP-spam out of voicemailboxes (or worse

Re: KX-T: O.K. Now let's get serious....TDA question and didja see

2005-01-20 Thread George Gleason
Hi Carl- Yes, you can use that combination of cards and not worry about power issues. The system knows what you have connected to it, and also knows what the total power consumption is. I have not yet tried the potentially-destructive (expensive) test of loading down a system above the rating

Re: KX-T: XBar Home

2005-01-20 Thread George Gleason
Re. John Francini: Interesting experiences you had with that switch. I thought SxS would be lower bandwidth than XB due to the crosstalk from other selectors stepping (those wonderful background noises we all remember fondly), but I guess I was mistaken. You were also ahead of me with computer

KX-T: low low fraudulent prices, cont'd....

2005-01-20 Thread George Gleason
Re. Larry Rappaport's comments re. "restraint of trade" issues: Panasonic's dealer agreement also says you can't sell to clients who are more than six hours away by surface transportation. The obvious rationale being that in the event of an emergency repair, you have to be able to go to site,

Re: KX-T: Low Low Fraudulent Prices

2005-01-20 Thread George Gleason
Re. Paul's item. We use open-source servers *and* a mixed desktop environment (open source and MacOSX, as well as the necessary Windows for running the PBX programming tool) and are working on open-source PBXs. For the last couple of years I've been promoting open source in the most important

KX-T: XBar Home (was in the re. fraudulent low prices thread)

2005-01-19 Thread George Gleason
coils are good. Bob -- Original Message --- From: George Gleason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'KXT Digest' Sent: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:12:59 -0800 Subject: Re: KX-T: Low Low Fraudulent Prices BTW, I'm an oldschool phone geek too, since the days of Ericsson crossbar and 1a2

Re: KX-T: KX-TDA on the web

2005-01-19 Thread George Gleason
Re. those nasty websites selling KXTDA under false pretenses, and whether we should tolerate them selling "phones only, not the KSU." At least one of those is selling the PBX cabinets also. KXTDA-50, -100, and -200. We shouldn't tolerate them selling KXTDA telephone sets either. That's just

Re: KX-T: Low Low Fraudulent Prices

2005-01-19 Thread George Gleason
Re. legitimate arrangements with non-certified dealers: The way we handle this is, if for example a consultant has a client who wants a phone system, they bring us in as a subcontractor. I don't see anything wrong with that, though if Panasonic told us it was improper, we'd stop doing it. We

Re: KX-T: Low Low Fraudulent Prices

2005-01-19 Thread George Gleason
Re. Don & Bob items: People who've been in the industry since the days of Strowger switches are 100% different than people who don't know or care what's sitting in their warehouse as long as they can mark it up 5% and sell it to unsuspecting end-users. Part of that difference is long-standing

Re: KX-T: Low Low Fraudulent Prices

2005-01-19 Thread George Gleason
Thanks Bob. Joe, there is nothing wrong with selling used/reconditioned KXTD or KXTDA with or without its software onboard, any more than selling used desktop computers with or without theirs. Buyers of used equipment know to look more closely at what they're getting, since it may vary from n

KX-T: Low Low Fraudulent Prices

2005-01-18 Thread George Gleason
eally like to see happen, is for legitimate certified dealers to get together and launch a class action suit against the fraudsters, on the ground that the frauds are directly impacting our own legitimate business in the same manner as the purveyors of stolen software impact legitimate software

KX-T: Re: KX-TDA on the web: Just Say NO to fraudulent sales practices!

2005-01-18 Thread George Gleason
Many are the clueless people who buy a bunch of parts without knowing what goes with what, and get the wrong stuff. Then you have to go through another round of false-start while trying to show them that the line card they ordered doesn't match the telephones, or that they got a "package deal"

Re: KX-T: Question for the Dealers

2005-01-17 Thread George Gleason
to the risk that some baddie will break in and make the machine reroute calls or message-notifications to Timbuktu and run up your client's phone bill $20K in a weekend. Use strong passwords, change them often, DO NOT EVER send a password via unencrypted email, etc. etc. -George Gleaso

Re: KX-T: UCD goes to extension but not voicemail

2005-01-12 Thread George Gleason
doesn't know any of this has occurred and just hears mailbox greeting and can leave a message. That should take care of the situation. Cheers!- -George Gleason, PBX Engineer Cooperative Digital 510-843-2667 extn 205 "The impossible just got easy!" Mac Mini, $500 Macintosh: Better,

Re: Why should the configuration tools be protected? Was: KX-T: Kx-tda200

2004-12-24 Thread George Gleason
Speak for yourself, Jim. There's more than one way to make a profit, and not everyone falls into the trap of heading quickly for the lowest common denominator. Some companies do have standards, after all. -George On 24 Dec, 2004, at 7:10 AM, Jim Marks wrote: The one and only point that Panason

Re: KX-T: RE: KXTAW848 with KXT7680 Cordless Call-Waiting function

2004-12-02 Thread George Gleason
EFA is External Feature Access, which is identical with a "flash" button on a single-line set. It sends a Flash to a CO line or trunk. Or if you're oldschool, think of the "ground button" on mechanical PBXs On 02 Dec, 2004, at 3:57 PM, John Berry wrote: Now is the ignorant question, What

KX-T: KXTDA 1.1 upgrade: interesting midpoint result.

2004-10-07 Thread George Gleason
Posting to KXT list: Here's an odd finding. (BCC to Mike: Yo, check this out, speaking of tone-plans, but don't reply to this listmail, reply to me directly or we'll talk tomorrow) KXTDA-200, USA version, I'm in the process of upgrading from 1.0 to 1.1. I get to about the midpoint of the pro

KX-T: KXTD speakerphone very strange problem

2004-08-20 Thread George Gleason
r line voltage fluctuations or power surges etc. Also the system is on a surge protector. Has anyone here ever encountered something like this before, and if so, what was causing it, and what was the fix? Or am I dealing with a haunted house?:-) -George Gleason 510-843-2667 extn 20