I am using asterisk for both business and home use. It sounds like a good approach to me Dave.
Thank you, Richard ----- Original Message ----- From: David Steele To: Richard (Rogers @ work) ; [email protected] Cc: Chris ; Duane Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 8:50 AM Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] Blacklist all 1800 1866 1877 numbers Richard, If you are just doing this for a home install, you may want to consider a simple auto attendant. I've got a setup that has stopped telemarketers in their tracks. It is a little cumbersome, but I have a prerequisite that I have to meet - the Toronto Public Library (automated message phone call) has to be able to leave a message letting me know that books that I or my wife have reserved are now available. My strategy: __________ "Hi, we don't accept charity or marketing phone calls. All other callers, please press star now" (if no press after 5 seconds, go to a general voicemail box that says "Hi, you are in our general voicemail box. If you feel you have reached this in error, please hang up and try again. If not, well, perhaps hang up now anyway. If you feel that you must leave a message, please do so after the tone") If the caller did press *, go to the directory. __________ Callers can actually dial the extension they need immediately (my extensions are 1, 2 and 3) without hitting * first. I could potentially further tweak the system to have a whitelist that goes directly to the directory, or to a particular extension. At the moment I just have my cell phone programmed to dial 1 after hitting the AA, so I don't have to do anything special to call home. I finish it off by having the general voicemail box email any messages to me. After a month of running with the system I have found that it has caught a few people that have genuine business with us, but no telemarketers have left messages (and none have had the 'nads to hit * to talk to us live). Hope this helps, and if anyone has any suggestions on how this could be further tweaked I would love to hear about it. Cheers, Dave. On 5/15/07, Duane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Richard (Rogers @ work) wrote: > Good point Chris! There is a site (http://whocalled.us) that you can post about tele-scum, and I guess you could query it if you do a little screen scraping in Asterisk. -- Best regards, Duane http://www.freeauth.org - Enterprise Two Factor Authentication http://www.nodedb.com - Think globally, network locally http://www.sydneywireless.com - Telecommunications Freedom http://e164.org - Because e164.arpa is a tax on VoIP "In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
