[Asterisk-Users] So what if I can't dial out ... or in ... Asterisk just blows my mind!

[Steven Critchfield]

On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 19:00 -0600, Lane wrote:
> I subscribed to this list for about two months before I began posting, so I've 
> got a buttload of email to sift through ... I'm doing this BEFORE I flood the 
> list with my inane questions ...
> 
> But here goes:
> 
> I read a reply from one guy to another about recording.  The message included 
> this context from extensions.conf:
> 
> [recordings]
> exten => 500,1,Festival('Please record your message')
> exten => 500,2,Record(mymessage:gsm)
> exten => 500,3,Festival('You said')
> exten => 500,4,Playback(mymessage)
> exten => 500,5,Festival('Press 1 to continue or 2 to change your message')
> exten => 500,6,ResponseTimeout(3)
> 
> So I figgered out how to make selected conferences automatically record the 
> "minutes," and I was SO PSYCHED!!!!
> 
> But then I thought, what if I answer the phone and it's my ex-wife claiming 
> that she's gonna sue me for malfeasance because of my new boyfriend, and I 
> wanna make a recording of that call?  How could I discreetly begin a 
> recording of that call?

You make a judgment call. Drives are cheap and if the recording laws are
in your favor in your area, record everything and delete those that you
haven't sequestered away after 1 to 2 weeks. 

Other option is to fake a call waiting and switch out to initiate
recording before joining back. 
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>