A voice mail message has been saved for a limited period of time
with a voice mail service, i.e. RCN.

Please identify and describe an inexpensive way to permanently save
or copy a voice mail message, for example to a computer file.

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Request for Question Clarification by cynthia-ga on 29 Jun 2005 17:30 PDT

I have another idea. Let me know if this will work for you.

When you listen to the voice mail, do you have an option to "send it
to another phone number" ??

The reason I'm asking, is there are free services that can help. You
can send the voice mail to another phone number, an Internet number,
which it captures as a voice mail.  This service then converts the
file to a .wav file and sends it to your email.

Will this work?

~~Cynthia

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Clarification of Question by tobuy-ga on 29 Jun 2005 19:44 PDT

Cynthia, Yes, your -other- idea should works if it is not costly.

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Clarification of Question by tobuy-ga on 29 Jun 2005 19:46 PDT

Oh - Free is not so costly, now that I have reread your message.

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Request for Question Clarification by cynthia-ga on 29 Jun 2005 21:17 PDT

tobuy,

I don't want you to be disappointed, please try this:

K7
http://www.k7.net/
K7 Unified Messaging provides you with a free phone number. This
number enables you to have your voicemail messages and faxes delivered
directly to your computer.

When it works, let me know and I'll post it as the answer.  Also, once
the voice mail is on your hard drive, you can convert it to any audio
file format, like mp3, although wav files are fine too.

~~Cynthia

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Request for Question Clarification by cynthia-ga on 29 Jun 2005 21:18 PDT

I have no idea why the link did that.  Here:  http://www.k7.net/

Inexpensive?

I'd play the voice mail on a speakerphone and capture it with a
microphone. Keep trying until you get a passable recording.  Done.

~~Cynthia

Just get a device that connects to your phone and has you a mini-plug
that you can plug into your computer's Sound In.  You can pick up
something like this at Radio Shack.

To update you, the link may work for new voice mail messages, but the
ones I wish to save are already recorded. I am looking at Call Corder
softer at the moment. I am not sure yet if it works.

Neither Radio Shack nor a local computer supplies store had such a
device as noted in by leep-ga. I would not be at all surprised if one
exists though.

reb-ga