I don't think this would necessarily fit your needs, however you might find it as interesting as I do, it's more geared toward authors, but it's a custom baked thing that a pal Cory Doctorow's whipped up for him to use Git for his writing http://craphound.com/?p=2171 Like I said, it doesn't seem like it would fit your needs, but it's interesting and I thought I'd share. I do think there's a lot to be said for user education. It doesn't have to be ongoing, but just sitting down once with several groups of people can work wonders on an offices workflow.

Thank you, this was my first exact thought! Anyone old enough to remember when Cable TV first came on the market, subscriptions were marketed as "you pay a subscription fee, so we won't have commercials" We all know how that worked out. It's just another "thin edge of the wedge" scenario.. lube up the thin edge, delicately place it in, apply ever increasing pressure until you're so stretched out you wonder how we got here. Ughhhhhh.. lather, rinse, repeat....

Last time I used a modem was a few years ago (~march 2010) in the PORTAL 2 announcement ARG. I was monitoring the the thread on Steam forums, and was following along with all the Morse code/SSTV/md5 hash decoding stuff, when someone decoded the final MD5 hash (to a phone number in Seattle) for a "fax machine" that people began calling to, reporting that "it's just some Fax line" in the forums. The posts blew up with comments like ""Damn, who the hell still has a modem _AND_ a landline".. and I thought... holy hell, I've got a land line _AND_ a modem _In this very computer_!! Needless to say, I hooked it up and started dialing it repeatedly and trying to guess passwords and such until 5 in the morning, posting my results in the forums. It bought me back to the good old BBS days in a big way... I literally had the same kind of adrenal thrill I hadn't felt since back in the 80's & early '90's. It made me glad I'm such a crmudgen as to hold on to legacy tech "just in case".

Actually, I looked into the issue a while ago of connecting phone to the PC's audio interface and found that there's a class of devices used in broadcasting called telephone couplers (or hybrid couplers) that are intended for addressing some of the problems of attaching telephone lines to other audio circuts (namely the line voltage matching, echo cancellation/duplex issues, and also take the 8KHz upper frequency limit of conventional POTS specs out of the equation)

I was looking for this last aspect, defeating the 8KHz filter, essentially, to record from phone lines so I could do remote live musical performances. the thing is, these things can be pricey... I found some that were as little as $100-200 and ones as much as $500-1000.... and you generally need at least two.... one on each end. I gave up based on price.

however here are some links I found during my research, including some DIY info.

http://www.sagebrush.com/phontech.htm
http://www.bradleybroadcast.com/2001/telephone.htm
http://www.audiotheater.com/phone/phone.html
http://www.taiaudio.com/right/sales/salescatalog/t elephoneinterface/teleinter.html
http://www.omnicronelectronics.com/PC/Computer_Acc y.htm
http://www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/circuits/telein terface.html
http://www.dplay.com/tutorial/Mac2tel.html

hope it helps