[VoIP] We've lost a pioneer

[Donald Froula]

I'm very sorry to hear this. I spoke to Joe just a few
months ago. I was watching a Discovery Channel video
clip of him a few days ago, "dialing" a phone number
into an old 2600 trunk by whistling pulses of 2600. He
was an interesting guy.

Jayson where did you spot the news?

Don

--- Jayson Smith <ratguy at insightbb.com> wrote:

> Joe Engressia, A.K.A. Joe the Whistler, A.K.A.
> Joybubbles passed
> away in his apartment approximately two days ago. He
> was found by
> management personnel after a phone friend grew
> concerned when he
> hadn't heard from him in several days. His family in
> Florida was
> notified. He was fifty-eight years old.
>      As most of you know, his ordeals with the phone
> company over
> the blue box issue were noted in the October 1971
> Esquire Magazine
> article
> "Secrets of the Little Blue Box." Recent interests
> included
> humorous telephone postings called Phlogs on
> voicemail services.
> He wrote Telephiles for Playback Magazine. His
> interests also
> included children's literature and paraphernalia..
>      Although I never knew Joe personally, I did
> talk to him on the
> Wawina, Minnesota conference line which was set up
> on June 15,
> 2006, when Wawina cut over from N2 to T1 for its
> toll trunks. He
> also left many messages on a message board which was
> set up in the
> weeks prior to the cutover.
>      Please post this message to any other lists
> where you feel it
> would be appropriate, or send it to individuals. I
> am not in close
> contact with any of the old phone phreak crowd, but
> I'm sure some
> of you are, and can get the news out.
> Jayson
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