wruckman
Ruckman.net
join:2007-10-25
Northwood, OH | Iprelay troubles
HAHA! Who hasn't used IPRelay to make a funny on someone? But fraud...Not good. |
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SLD
Premium
join:2002-04-17
1 edit | Uh...me. I don't know *anybody* who has used this service in the way you just described. |
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Karl Bode
News Guy
join:2000-03-02 | »[it's cool] Poor IP Relay operators... |
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KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
Premium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK
 ·AT&T Yahoo
·AT&T DSL Service
 ·Cox HSI
| Damn, server's down |
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SilenceGold
Premium
join:2003-07-31
Benton, AR
| reply to Karl Bode
I am disappointed to find out that some DSLR users find it amusing to abuse the services that are intended for hearing impaired users who need to make phone calls.
It is a huge waste of taypayers money every time an abuser uses the relay services. Soon, the text based IP relay services will disappear and video based IP relay will be the replacement.
To effectively abuse the video based IP relay services, knowledge of sign language is a requirement.  |
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Sefirato
Turambar, Master of Fate
Premium
join:2002-05-08
Anchorage, AK
| said by SilenceGold  :To effectively abuse the video based IP relay services, knowledge of sign language is a requirement. Yeah, and I tend to abuse them a lot in the last 2 years!  Fortunately for me, I'm getting an upgraded videophone equipment this week from Sorenson VRS, wheee!
Anyway, I haven't really used IP Relay much except for incoming calls and they tend to suck in that regard anyway since most callers don't appear to want to leave a message when they attempt to call me. How it works, they call the number given to me by IP Relay, then IP Relay contacts me through AIM (or VP in some cases) to connect me to the caller. Often whenever someone calls and IP Relay contacts me on the AIM, they hang up before I could relay my message back. I wonder why, maybe it was because of these scammers? Hm.
Oh, and I'm deaf. |
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SilenceGold
Premium
join:2003-07-31
Benton, AR
| Deaf here too.
How are you doing the abusings? Or did you mean to say that you used them a lot in the last 2 years?
I use CSDVRS's call back feature. I'm given a 888 number and a hearing person can call my 888 number and it goes straight to my video phone. I have gotten several video messages when they don't get an answer. |
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Sefirato
Turambar, Master of Fate
Premium
join:2002-05-08
Anchorage, AK
| That sounds really nice. What I meant was that I used them a lot (maybe not enough though compared to some folks that I know) over the last 2 years. I received my first videophone in 2004. We're currently slated to receive our VP-200 this Thursday.
I do have a Call-back feature but not with CSDVRS though. Both of the call-back features are with IM-based relay services such as i711 and ip-relay.
When we get our VP-200, I'll be checking out more about the CSDVRS features and see how it will benefit us as we usually turn the VP-100 off for most of the day. |
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birdfeedr
Premium,MVM
join:2001-08-11
Warwick, RI
 ·Verizon FIOS
| reply to KrK
said by KrK :Damn, server's down it looks like a domain squatter got pacoc.com, and phuzion.com does not resolve. The original thread is from 2004, which is prehistoric in internet years.  |
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james
join:2001-02-26
antarctica | reply to Sefirato
What happens if you're blind and deaf? I wonder if they have some sort of braile or tactile communications device. |
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jasonsmith
Premium
join:2001-02-11 | This is actually being done, see hawkrelay.com for more information. |
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jasonsmith
Premium
join:2001-02-11 | reply to Sefirato
i711 and ip-relay is now owned by the same company as of last week. |
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justgold79
join:2008-01-13
| reply to birdfeedr
Even the internet archive is missing them (no surprise there),
»web.archive.org/web/*sr_1nr_30/h···oc.com/*
There's a prank on youtube though:
»www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbR2tTkjILk
Here an IP Relay operator sings Cannibal Corpse:
»www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x_0XkzvUfk |
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