[VoIP] We've lost a pioneer

[Jayson Smith]

Hi,

     As to where I heard the news, I'm blind, and have blind friends who
were associated with him on a voicemail system.
Also, thanks for that video file! I'll be sure and give it a listen!
Jayson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donald Froula" <dfroula at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Voice Over IP Tandem for Analog Switches" <voip at lists.ckts.info>
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: [VoIP] We've lost a pioneer


> 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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