On Apr 24, 2009, at 2:06 PM, Peter Beckman wrote: > For the love of god and all that is holy, why do you not include > your US > rates in your ratesheets? I don't care that each customer gets a > different > rate, if you can terminate calls worth your salt, you can hire > someone to > write a script that includes the rate for the customer in your rate > sheets. > It's fine if one has to get the rate sheet via a URL like this: > > > http://www.example.com/dynamic_rates.php?username=xxx&password=xxx&format=csv > > (Bonus -- If I'm logged into your site, username/password isn't > required!) > > I don't mind! I don't even mind if I have to sign up for free to > GET your > A-Z rates! I _DO_ mind having to update US rates by hand while I can > automate the updating of rates using your published rate sheet! > > The United States is a country too -- stop thinking about all the > other > countries separately from your A-Z rate sheet and leaving out the US > because it is, for you, not International. You can't know what your > customer thinks is International! > > So do me a favor -- figure out how to publish your rates on a per- > customer > basis, so we can automatically update rates from your site, and so > that we > can maybe even automatically send you more traffic when you put a > destination on sale! > > Beckman > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Peter Beckman > Internet Guy > [email protected] http://www.angryox.com/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Peter - You're doing your domain name proud! ;-) It is almost always contradictory to provider's best interests to make their rate sheets easy to import or understand. Here's a document set that I wrote a while back in the hopes that I could beat providers up into giving me the correct rate table data in a format I could use: http://www.loligo.com/asterisk/misc/rates/ JT --- John Todd email:[email protected] Digium, Inc. | Asterisk Open Source Community Director 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville AL 35806 - USA direct: +1-256-428-6083 http://www.digium.com/ _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
