> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
> Andy Spitzer
> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 10:59 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [sipX-dev] sipXecs 18499 fowlerp: XX-7944 - only 
> valid keys can/will stop recording
> 
> Woof!
> 
> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:47 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> >  XX-7944 - only valid keys can/will stop recording
> 
> This is not a good idea.  If DTMF gets into a recording, then 
> when it gets played back it can echo back and be detected as 
> if the far end pressed a digit.
> 
> This is a lesson I learned the hard way a long time ago.  
> Here is the situation:
> 
> Caller left a message, pressed '4'.  As '4' wasn't the 'stop' 
> key, the audable DTMF tone got recorded into the message.
> 
> The user called into to retrieve messages, and played back 
> this caller's message.  The '4' DTMF digit was played (as it 
> was happily recorded).  It echoed back weakly (side tone, or 
> analog hybrid, or for whatever reason there was a small 
> amount of echo back, like there is in the real world).  As 
> '4' was the 'delete' message, the echoed back DTMF was 
> detected and acted on.  The message deleted itself!  This was 
> not an isolated incident, it occurred rarely, but frequently 
> enough to become a real problem.  As you can imagine, it 
> wasn't easy to figure out what the actual problem was, as for 
> all reasonable checks it showed that the caller pressed 4.
> 
> Unless there is a way to suppress the DTMF audio from the 
> recording, I suggest that you back out this change and force 
> any detected DTMF to end the recording, lest you suffer the 
> same problems going forward.
> 
> --Woof!
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Thank you. You are absolutely right. Something we did not think of. We will 
back this out
And mark the Jira as no fix planned. 

Peter  
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