[Asterisk-Users] Solution for 1 time blast of 200, 000 recorded calls
Hi, I'm helping out with a political campaign and would like to use asterisk to blast out about 200,000 calls with a short message from the candidate. Provider: I'm thinking voipjet may be a good solution? Hardware setup: I will have access to several T-1 lines so I would just want to set up the dialers to limit the number of concurrent calls and so forth. I found teleyapper on nerdvittles: http://mundy.org/blog/index.php But I'm not sure that this actually does concurrent calls. I'm thinking my best bet is writing some fast agi to parse a mysql database, then create call files. Use asterisk manager interface to monitor calls and that way I can keep the preset concurrent limit. Any ideas? TIA! -Ron ___ --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
RE: [Asterisk-Users] Solution for 1 time blast of 200, 000 recorded calls
Yeh my advice is don't, or if you must make sure you clean your dialling list first with the DNC list. Yes I know that political messages don't need to obey the DNC list but they should. This is why I don't donate t most political campaigns. Dean -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:asterisk-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Senykoff Sent: Tuesday, 14 February 2006 10:15 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Solution for 1 time blast of 200,000 recorded calls Hi, I'm helping out with a political campaign and would like to use asterisk to blast out about 200,000 calls with a short message from the candidate. Provider: I'm thinking voipjet may be a good solution? Hardware setup: I will have access to several T-1 lines so I would just want to set up the dialers to limit the number of concurrent calls and so forth. I found teleyapper on nerdvittles: http://mundy.org/blog/index.php But I'm not sure that this actually does concurrent calls. I'm thinking my best bet is writing some fast agi to parse a mysql database, then create call files. Use asterisk manager interface to monitor calls and that way I can keep the preset concurrent limit. Any ideas? TIA! -Ron ___ --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 ___ --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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Solution for 1 time blast of 200, 000 recorded calls
How much time and hardware do you have to do this? VICIDIAL is capable of doing this(and we have done that with VICIDIAL in the past) with hundreds of concurrent calls if your servers can handle it, but it takes a few hours to setup and if you are only doing this once it may not be worth it. MATT--- On 2/14/06, Ron Senykoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm helping out with a political campaign and would like to use asterisk to blast out about 200,000 calls with a short message from the candidate. Provider: I'm thinking voipjet may be a good solution? Hardware setup: I will have access to several T-1 lines so I would just want to set up the dialers to limit the number of concurrent calls and so forth. I found teleyapper on nerdvittles: http://mundy.org/blog/index.php But I'm not sure that this actually does concurrent calls. I'm thinking my best bet is writing some fast agi to parse a mysql database, then create call files. Use asterisk manager interface to monitor calls and that way I can keep the preset concurrent limit. Any ideas? TIA! -Ron ___ --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 ___ --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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Solution for 1 time blast of 200, 000 recorded calls
Ron Senykoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm helping out with a political campaign and would like to use asterisk to blast out about 200,000 calls with a short message from the candidate. Can you tell me which party this is for, so I can ensure I never vote for them? -- PGP key ID E85DC776 - finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for full key ___ --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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Solution for 1 time blast of 200, 000 recorded calls
Voipjet should be fine however dont have all the calls go out at once. test your system first and see how many concurent calls you can have at once without loosing voice quality. I would also reccomend getting a dedicated server to do the calls as apposed to buying the equipment if you are doing a one time thing (it will lower your costs). --- Ron Senykoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm helping out with a political campaign and would like to use asterisk to blast out about 200,000 calls with a short message from the candidate. Provider: I'm thinking voipjet may be a good solution? Hardware setup: I will have access to several T-1 lines so I would just want to set up the dialers to limit the number of concurrent calls and so forth. I found teleyapper on nerdvittles: http://mundy.org/blog/index.php But I'm not sure that this actually does concurrent calls. I'm thinking my best bet is writing some fast agi to parse a mysql database, then create call files. Use asterisk manager interface to monitor calls and that way I can keep the preset concurrent limit. Any ideas? TIA! -Ron ___ --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 __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ --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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Solution for 1 time blast of 200, 000 recorded calls
Ron Senykoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm helping out with a political campaign and would like to use asterisk to blast out about 200,000 calls with a short message from the candidate. Can you tell me which party this is for, so I can ensure I never vote for them? It's a basic GOTV (Get Out The Vote) drive, with just a short message to encourage people to come out to the polls. It has nothing to do with asking for any money, etc. Just a short message to people who belong to the party from their candidate. -Ron ___ --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
RE: [Asterisk-Users] Solution for 1 time blast of 200, 000 recorded calls
I'm helping out with a political campaign and would like to use asterisk to blast out about 200,000 calls with a short message from the candidate. I can't speak for anyone else, but I'd find it very difficult ethically to be involved in this, even assuming it's legal. Check very carefully that it's legal in your jurisdiction. Assuming you get over those hurdles, for a provider, you'd want someone with per-second billing and no minimum call charge. If you get free local calls within a set area and it's a local election, consider separating your dial list out into local (i.e. free) calls and out-of-area calls. Use the VoIP provider for the out-of-area calls, and your T1s for local calls. 200,000 calls isn't too bad if you're prepared to space it over a period of time. If you're looking to target homes, you'll probably be aiming for times from 6pm - 8pm during the working week (after people get home, but before the kids go to bed), so if you wanted to do it over 2 weeks (20 hour window) you'd need to process 10,000 calls an hour, or 166 calls a minute. There was a discussion on the list recently about dimensioning for systems capable of 500 concurrent calls, which may be worth a read. Regards, Chris -- C.M. Bagnall, Director, Minotaur I.T. Limited This email is made from 100% recycled electrons ___ --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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Solution for 1 time blast of 200, 000 recorded calls
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Ron Senykoff wrote: I'm helping out with a political campaign and would like to use asterisk to blast out about 200,000 calls with a short message from the candidate. there is a special place in hell reserved for people who do this. my advice: don't. -Dan ___ --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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Solution for 1 time blast of 200, 000 recorded calls
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Ron Senykoff wrote: It's a basic GOTV (Get Out The Vote) drive, with just a short message to encourage people to come out to the polls. It has nothing to do with asking for any money, etc. Just a short message to people who belong to the party from their candidate. I just did a quick office poll and everyone agreed if a party candidate did this to them, they would vote for the candidate's opponent. The office is rarely unanimous in political matters so this was a pretty interesting result to me. I'm pretty sure the feeling is universal. Like I said there is a special place in hell for people who do this. Unsolicited is unsolicited, no matter the content. The last thing people want is an unsolicited call from a _politician_. -Dan ___ --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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Solution for 1 time blast of 200, 000 recorded calls
I just did a quick office poll and everyone agreed if a party candidate did this to them, they would vote for the candidate's opponent. The office is rarely unanimous in political matters so this was a pretty interesting result to me. I'm pretty sure the feeling is universal. Like I said there is a special place in hell for people who do this. Unsolicited is unsolicited, no matter the content. The last thing people want is an unsolicited call from a _politician_. If you want to rant about politics, take it to the right forum. alt.politics If you want to PM me, go for it. But don't turn this professional VoIP forum into your own soapbox. ___ --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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Solution for 1 time blast of 200, 000 recorded calls
Here in Arizona I have gotten recorded calls from politicians. There are apps to allow for this feature. If you want to know more contact me offline. Kyle ___ --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
RE: [Asterisk-Users] Solution for 1 time blast of 200, 000 recorded calls
Yes. I have customers doing that all the time. They are service provider specialize in political campages. Going back to topic, it he is only doing this one time, why doesn't just find a service provider company to do it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris Bagnall Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 1:42 PM To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Solution for 1 time blast of 200,000 recorded calls I'm helping out with a political campaign and would like to use asterisk to blast out about 200,000 calls with a short message from the candidate. I can't speak for anyone else, but I'd find it very difficult ethically to be involved in this, even assuming it's legal. Check very carefully that it's legal in your jurisdiction. Assuming you get over those hurdles, for a provider, you'd want someone with per-second billing and no minimum call charge. If you get free local calls within a set area and it's a local election, consider separating your dial list out into local (i.e. free) calls and out-of-area calls. Use the VoIP provider for the out-of-area calls, and your T1s for local calls. 200,000 calls isn't too bad if you're prepared to space it over a period of time. If you're looking to target homes, you'll probably be aiming for times from 6pm - 8pm during the working week (after people get home, but before the kids go to bed), so if you wanted to do it over 2 weeks (20 hour window) you'd need to process 10,000 calls an hour, or 166 calls a minute. There was a discussion on the list recently about dimensioning for systems capable of 500 concurrent calls, which may be worth a read. Regards, Chris -- C.M. Bagnall, Director, Minotaur I.T. Limited This email is made from 100% recycled electrons ___ --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 ___ --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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Solution for 1 time blast of 200, 000 recorded calls
Well, I'm not real sure on whether I like the idea or not bug Anyway, here is an app that I wrote for something similar to this. It was for notifying customers of events,etc. http://www.astpp.org/index.php?n=Misc.AutoDialOut Darren Wiebe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ron Senykoff wrote: Hi, I'm helping out with a political campaign and would like to use asterisk to blast out about 200,000 calls with a short message from the candidate. Provider: I'm thinking voipjet may be a good solution? Hardware setup: I will have access to several T-1 lines so I would just want to set up the dialers to limit the number of concurrent calls and so forth. I found teleyapper on nerdvittles: http://mundy.org/blog/index.php But I'm not sure that this actually does concurrent calls. I'm thinking my best bet is writing some fast agi to parse a mysql database, then create call files. Use asterisk manager interface to monitor calls and that way I can keep the preset concurrent limit. Any ideas? TIA! -Ron ___ --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 -- Darren Wiebe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aleph Communications ASTPP - Open Source Voip Billing Calling Cards www.aleph-com.net/astpp ___ --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
RE: [Asterisk-Users] Solution for 1 time blast of 200, 000 recorded calls
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Corlett Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:01 AM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Solution for 1 time blast of 200,000 recorded calls Ron Senykoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm helping out with a political campaign and would like to use asterisk to blast out about 200,000 calls with a short message from the candidate. Can you tell me which party this is for, so I can ensure I never vote for them? Do your fellow citizens a favor and just don't vote, period. Anyone who would make a decsision as important as voting for a political office or issue, based solely on party affiliation or worse, the questionable antics of one individual (with plans to VOIP-SPAM 200,000 people), can not be trusted with such an important responsibility. ___ --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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Solution for 1 time blast of 200, 000 recorded calls
Thanks for all your responses. The reason we would not go through a provider is that I run Asterisk phone systems, we have access to bandwidth, and I can do this myself for a fraction of the cost. Cheers ___ --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
