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Yes, that's correct. We'd have a special phone # that only plays the 
program for the day.  I'll take a look at your links. Thanks.

Allan Ayres wrote:
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> While I'm also a huge fan of the DV-68, I think Wayne is talking about 
> a device that will play the daily recording for an external person 
> phoning in to the museum -- right?
>
> In that case, I'd think it'd be fairly straightforward to get a 
> computer to do that.  On the Mac side, I found these software packages 
> in a quick search:
>
> http://www.parliant.com/phonevalet
>
> http://www.ovolab.com/phlink/index.php
>
> Just glancing at the web sites, it appears that you can customize the 
> outgoing message based on, well, based on a lot of things.  I don't 
> know if you'd be able to schedule a different outgoing message each 
> day for an entire month, but it looks like at least a week is doable. 
> If you have hackers in your midst, they could probably set up an 
> AppleScript or Automator script to schedule it out a lot longer.
>
> The Philink one really emphasizes scriptability... it talks about, for 
> example, how you can get it to look up the weather online and read the 
> forecast to someone over the phone... so it seems like it ought to be 
> straightforward to get it to play a sound file based on the date.
>
> This seems like a very solvable problem (and a fun thing to implement, 
> too).  Good luck!
>
> --Allan
>
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