Things that will make your idea difficult.
Although telemarketers are supposed to send their CallerID, many if not most, I see "Unkown". I believe this is illegal but I see it many times a day. I worked at a company with over one thousand toll free numbers, simply changing outbound CallerID to another number defeats your scripts. I could also change the actual DNIS of these calls, so a telemarketer could easily defeat your mechanism and still be legal. I could also send any arbitrary ten digit CallerID and DNIS which looks better to the callee than "Unknown" but cannot be associated to a particular telemarketer. Thanks, Steve Totaro http://www.asteriskhelpdesk.com/ KB3OPB _____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ritesh Agrawal Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 4:38 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] List of telemarketers?? Thanks everyone for the responses, encouragement and offers to help. I will get started on this shortly and circle back with you guys. If someone has a starter list, it would help jump start the efforts/motivation :-) Ritesh On 5/9/07, Noah Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Ritesh - > Does anyone know if there is a known list of telemarketers? > Something like http://whocalled.us/ with an easier access? > > We could all benefit if there was such a thing :-) > If there is enough interest, I could put up a database that everyone can > benefit from. > > I just need some suggestions on: > (1) Adding new numbers based on community responses (some rule to sanity > check) > (2) Method that everyone would prefer to access the dbase. Wow, that's a generous offer. I like the idea of a blacklist for telemarketers. It's bound to be more effective than an RBL for spammers! One thing to note: this may end up being a non-US database. Here in the US, I've experienced great success with the www.donotcall.gov service. If you're in the US and haven't signed up for this service, I'd highly recommend it. Of course, there may be non-telemarketer calls that it would be nice to be able to block. - Noah _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
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