[Asterisk-Users] VoIP Spam (was VoYP.Net)

[Greg Retkowski]

Luckily VoIP telemarketing is much higher sender/recipient
(bandwidth/resource) expense ratio than email spam.. Until of course they
figure out how to make VoIP-spam worms to infect a bunch of windows boxes.

I bet that VoIP spammers will have the same immpecable ethical standards
as their email counterparts, making it difficult to implement do-not-call
for voip.

Databases aside, nothing prevents them from 'wardialing' sip
@fwd.pulver.com or other providers to build telemarketing lists. I suppose
it's a looming issue that'll only be a matter of time before becoming
serious.

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-- Greg

Greg Retkowski /     I.T. Infrastructure Consultant       /)/|//`
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On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Matt Riddell wrote:

> Only problem I can see if that currently, I can search for a or e etc...if
> this gives me a list of urls/numbers, what is to stop me feeding them into a
> database to telemarket to them?
>
> As far as I'm aware there is no internation Do Not Call registry for
> internet based calls...
>
> Anyone know anymore about this?
>
> Anyone keen to help with this?
>
> Would it be worthwhile?
>
> Is there another?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Matt
>
> P.S. I don't really want to do it but someone should and if noone else wants
> to, I will...