Is there any block list?
jimates:
Quote from: QBZappy on March 16, 2011, 09:28:12 pm
1) I waS thinking about your call block strategy. Your strategy picks up the CID and drops them in a void. This approach makes a lot of sense. To make it interesting for telemarketers that make it on the block list, we could redirect them to a FCC phone number. That would certainly confuse them. If there was an IVR which we could record sound we could then direct them to recorded busy sounds, etc... Can you think of a way to deliberately send a call to a broken call path which could reproduce a busy or other tone?
Instead of blocking them you can forward them to a google voice number where they can be sent straight to voicemail, blocked, treated as spam or you can have a personal recording that plays music, busy signal or whatever. If you use a junk google voice number then you won't have to set up contacts, you can have the same action for every incoming.
QBZappy:
jimates,
That too is an excellent idea, GV adds more options to handle the calls.
QBZappy:
OBi Central,
Can someone there define the "?" param = anonymous calls
MichiganTelephone:
This is slightly OT may may be helpful to some readers of this thread - if Google Voice is what you are using to receive incoming calls then you can also use their call blocking features. This article just posted on "The Consumerist" site explains:
Just Use "Block Caller" In Google Voice To Beat Fraudulent Debt Collectors
obi-support2:
? is the correct syntax to represent anonymous caller in a InBoundCallRoute.
By anonymous caller we meant either caller-id is not available (or blank) or the number field is not available (or blank). Note that ? used in this way MUST NOT be included in
parenthesis; otherwise it will take on a different meaning. For example:
{(x.1234)|?:},{ph}
will block any number ending in 1234 or anonymous. But
{(x.1234|?):}
will only block numbers ending in 1234.
Note that any x MUST be
inside parenthesis to be processed as a digit map syntax.
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FYI, the ? mark when used inside parenthesis (in a digit map that is) is to
represent 0 or 1 occurrence of the previous character. For example
(xx?) means a 1- or 2- digit number. This syntax will be available in the upcoming 1.2 release
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