[asterisk-users] Dial-9 (was Extension Numbering)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 03:54:49PM -0500, Eric ManxPower Wieling wrote:
> Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> >What's the common value for that number, and secondarily, does Asterisk
> >support the traditional #-cutthrough to signify that you're done
> >dialling, as LEC switches generally always have?
> 
> You can emulate #-cutthrough with clever dialplan stuff (no . in pattern).
> 
> Personally, I think the solution is to design your dialplan to not 
> require timeouts.

If you can, yes.

> My users require 30 seconds of delay before dialing is considered 
> "done".  My users are real estate agents, so you can understand the 
> requirement for a delay.  I actually had one of them tell me that they 
> didn't want to be notified of voicemail via a text message because "the 
> text messages are too hard to read and delete".

I'm sure glad I hadn't eaten yet.  Ick.

Cheers,
-- jra
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