[asterisk-users] Manual Wardialer

[Steve Totaro]

Legalities aside, I could see valid use for such a dialer.

If you ran a call center/business and had a couple hundred or even
thousands of (sequential) DIDs and you wanted to audit routing, then
this would be a good tool.

I have seen many unwieldy and gigantic systems that have numbers that
go to the wrong department or even dead ends.  A contact at ADT has
asked for similar functionality.

BTW, I will be releasing a dialer under the GPL shortly that has a
very low profile, AJAX web interface, and will be able to do just what
you want.  You will have to upload the numbers to the system as CSV
file, but that should be able to create in any spreadsheet program.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Matt Florell <astmattf at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  Sequential auto-dialing like this is pretty much illegal in the USA.
>  The FTC has specific regulations against this as well as several
>  states.
>
>
>  Obligatory Simpsons reference:
>  http://www.internerd.com/frink.retired/frinkv.3/inventions/at5000-2.gif
>  http://www.snpp.com/episodes/4F01.html
>
>
>  MATT---
>
>
>
>
>  On 4/27/08, Arthur <pylinuxian at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > some people use a "war dialer" to provide call centers with numbers for
>  > their campaigns ... if number called rings the number is valid if it doesn't
>  > its invalid & discarded. i wonder if that is legal  .. its basically a scan
>  > of the network for valid numbers (that is potential buyers).
>  >  i once was contacted by a company who offered this kind of service but i
>  > didn't trust them ... & the numbers without names is ugly.
>  >
>
>
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