Suggestion: add pseudo-destinations for telemarketer blocking

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MichiganTelephone:
Just as you have destinations like ph for the phone port or aa for the auto attendant, I suggest some pseudo destinations (the actual codes are just suggestions):

cg: Congestion (fast busy tone)
by: Busy tone
rg: Ringing (play ringing tone until caller hangs up)
st: SIT (a.k.a. "zapateller") tones (supposedly causes telemarketer computers to think they've reached a disconnected number)

The idea this that these could be used in an InboundCallRoute, so for example you could have a rule such as {?:st} to block all anonymous calls by sending them to a SIT tone.  Just a thought.

QBZappy:
MichiganTelephone,

Hi

I had just suggested the same thing tonight on another thread. Great minds...

 ;)

MichiganTelephone:
Hi, QBZappy, guess so!  ;D

Another thought is if they didn't want individual codes, they could use something like sc (for "service code") followed by a number.  So sc or sc1 would be congestion, sc2 would be busy, etc.  Or maybe better yet, ta for tones from Tone Profile A and tb for tones from Tone Profile B, followed by a number corresponding to a particular tone (so tb2 would be a busy signal from Tone Profile B).

QBZappy:
MichiganTelephone,

Some of these tones are already available on the OBi. I think it would be possible to deliberately send a call to one of these tones by using a call route. I don't know how, just my intuition.

MichiganTelephone:
QBZappy, they are all available in the Tone Profiles - I just don't know of any way to directly send a call to one of them.

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