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Sorry to try to snipe you Ian

Eric, I have PMed you. I live in Seattle, WA. Will pay cash, please contact me via PM to confirm you're still selling the system, that the price is still $1500, and how/where we can meet.

I am serious about this sale and can pay cash on pickup. I would like to complete it ASAP. I've already PMed you my mobile phone number, please call me so we can arrange the meeting.

Thanks,

-Josh

Sorry about that.  Here's the situation,

Ian was being a friend to me when he saw your posting and responded.  The truth is the seller has not logged back into the forums since March 28 according to his profile and hasn't opened my PMs yet nor responded to the forum postings.  So the fate of all this is uncertain.  Ian knew I was still trying to get ahold of the member because Ian and I have been talking and unless something was amiss I have every intention of completing a deal.  That what he meant.

He wasn't deciding anything, he was trying to ensure that requests where honored/addressed on a first come first serve basis and provided a reminder that I showed interest and live near the stated city so my offer was feasible.

At this point it has been a waiting game to see of the member logs back in to check this posting or his messages.  Until then I guess it's still anyone's game.

I am actually hoping emachine will pop back up so I'll likely go get money on Thursday morning in hopes this will work out.  Even though he hasn't checked up on any offers for a week's time right now.

The situation does cause some anxiety.  Since all we can do is wait I cannot block other parties.  I can only hope the sellers sees my PMs and postings and follows through with contacting me.

I am still very interested and can meet the requirement of zero shipping and hassle so while I feel this is the deal for me, without seller consent and communication no deal exists at this time.

Ian was simply stating "there was a line of interested parties" and so you'd be getting in line with me.

Odd situation, but let's please keep this civil as we are adults and while we all love this stuff and get enthused lets not loose site that this is a maybe deal.

If there was an admin here that might be able to ping the member on their email address to check if they were coming back that would help everyone out, I think.

-Josh (weblacky)

Hi Guys,
Have gotten a response from the seller just now and have just responded back to him. We are trying to arrange the deal. I'll make sure to post relevant info so there is an update as events conclude.

Thanks, Josh (weblacky)

Made the exchange today. Both machines have been sold.

-weblacky

Hi,
Not that I have the time to do this right now but I was lead to believe that SGIMeeting and the other apps mentioned above use H323 which is the precursor to SIP. Lots of older phone equipment uses H323. And many PBX systems like Asterisk have connectors for basic H323 endpoints and can interoperate the audio and session management with SIP endpoints.

I did look into this briefly. H323 had a video standard and a video signalling session. But I don't think a lot of the free PBXs have code to support this (I could be wrong here). With Microsoft netmeeting I seem to remember that the directory likely wouldn't work and extra desktop features wouldn't work but you could type in a Proxy and it would register and then you could type in handles and make calls. No whiteboard features or whatever were supported though.

There might be merit to wire sniffing older compliant programs and see what they actually say for the shared features, they might have all used the same signaling to be intercompatilbe at the time? If that's true an update to the openH323 project or something could be made to make up the difference. If you pulled it off right you could have a small asterisk server at home and register your H323 endpoints to it where you could then enter dial strings and make outbound PSTN or sip calls...and use carriers like Vonage or the like. This has a good chance of working if your proxy registration to the H323 emulation basically works for audio and session management.