On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Heikki Sørum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > from Matilda in Canned Meat Marketing. Matilda has created an software > system that automates calling and displays a unknown caller ID, then ... > 3rd party ruggedized Moko Case!) he tags the calling ID with "Deceptive > Marketing" tag. Unfortunately Matilda in Canned Meat Marketing
Well if it's unknown caller ID then Bob can't do that. Besides it might be counter-productive to blacklist big blocks of numbers which might later belong to somebody else when the telemarketing co. shuts down. I would propose sending unknown callers into a menu system: <recorded message> Your caller ID is blocked or turned off. If you are a telemarketer, please be warned that we are registered with the national Do-Not-Call list and do not wish to receive marketing messages of any kind. Otherwise please press 1 to leave a voice message, or enter your friend code. Then if some friend who calls from work complains that he always gets this because the phones at work have blocked caller ID, you give him a "friend code" which he can enter to authenticate and actually ring your phone. Otherwise you don't even know any of this is going on until you get a voicemail notification, and the "friend codes" are only needed in the special cases. Plus you can still blacklist small quantities of known-bad phone numbers. This sort of thing can probably be done with Asterisk. You could even do that with calls which do have caller ID but which are not on your whitelist. Or do that only during certain hours (when you are usually sleeping). Or make everyone enter a friend code when you are sleeping. :-) I think I would probably do that; as it is, I keep my cell turned off much more than I should, just in case. (Hate being woken up in the morning before my usual time to get up - one distraction like that can make me tired for a day or two if I don't get back to sleep.) _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community