I'm using it, with the 'nocallerid' option. I think you are really wondering about the
"special information" tones. Remember ever hearing the message:
"Dee Dee Dee -- The number you have dialed has been disconnected" ,
or whatever?
The Dee-Dee-Dee tones rise in pitch. That's the "special Information tones."
They have a hardware product at Walmart you can buy for $30-40 that does this, but for
everyone, every time you pick up an incoming call. The theory is that autodialers are made
to detect these tones and if present, will terminate the call, and strike the "bad" number from
the list, whereas humans may think the tones curious, but will rarely immediately hang up.
murf
On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 16:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Steve Foy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Asterisk-Users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Zapateller Date: 26 Jan 2004 17:54:56 +0000 Hi, I'm just wondering about 'Zapateller'. How exactly does it work!? I might be interested in employing it at work here, but wondering if anyone's using it? echo*CLI> show application Zapateller -= Info about application 'Zapateller' =- [Synopsis]: Block telemarketers with SIT [Description]: Zapateller(options): Generates special information tone to block telemarketers from calling you. Returns 0 normally or -1 on hangup. Options is a pipe-delimited list of options. The following options are available: 'answer' causes the line to be answered before playing the tone, 'nocallerid' causes Zapateller to only play the tone if there is no callerid information available. Options should be separated by | characters
