[Asterisk-Users] Re: call progress - what are the sticking points?

[Gilad Ben-Yossef]

Joe Greco wrote:

> 
> Answering machines get by on several mechanisms.  The ones that come to
> mind are:
> 
> 1) Silence detection.
> 
> 2) Session time limit.
> 
> Both of these are effective at doing something vaguely right within the
> requirements of an answering machine.  If you've never heard an answering
> machine that's recorded a minute's worth of dialtone followed by the loud
> "the phone is off the hook" tone, then I'm shocked.  :-)

I never did. I also never owned an answering machine :-)

> 
> Just because you can engineer around a problem doesn't make the solution 
> right.

Agreed and I was not thinking about this as a solution, but rather as a 
better kludge then my current method of using session time limit which 
is good enough for voice mail but is not good enough with conference bridge.

Cheers,
Gilad



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