>My opinion is this is a non-starter, a cash hole. Sorry. No, that's fine. I appreciate it and would rather know if it's a dumb idea. Some clarifications. >Th

>My opinion is this is a non-starter, a cash hole. Sorry. No, that's fine. I appreciate it and would rather know if it's a dumb idea. Some clarifications. >The service would need to have a dedicated number that people would call and leave messages, and a rather sophisticated system to receive the calls, understand speech and manage the service. I probably didn't explain it well, but that would only for apply to the email to phone use case (which is perhaps the less worthwhile case). Otherwise, you would send messages by going to the website or by emailing an address owned by the website. The routing from there is rather simple. >* The abuse problem is that anyone could call the access number and leave a message for anyone That isn't really a new problem (i.e. spam). Those same arguments apply to email. What I'm suggesting would be an additional filter that could work off of a combination of spam filters, white lists, and/or opt-outs.