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Steve--<BR>
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I'm using it, with the 'nocallerid' option. I think you are really wondering about the <BR>
"special information" tones. Remember ever hearing the message:<BR>
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"Dee Dee Dee -- The number you have dialed has been disconnected" , <BR>
<BR>
or whatever?<BR>
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The Dee-Dee-Dee tones rise in pitch. That's the "special Information tones."<BR>
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They have a hardware product at Walmart you can buy for $30-40 that does this, but for <BR>
everyone, every time you pick up an incoming call. The theory is that autodialers are made<BR>
to detect these tones and if present, will terminate the call, and strike the "bad" number from<BR>
the list, whereas humans may think the tones curious, but will rarely immediately hang up.<BR>
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murf<BR>
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On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 16:31, asterisk-users-request@lists.digium.com wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#fb5409"><B><I>From:</B> Steve Foy <steve@unite.net>
<B>To:</B> Asterisk-Users <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com>
<B>Subject:</B> [Asterisk-Users] Zapateller
<B>Date:</B> 26 Jan 2004 17:54:56 +0000
Hi,
I'm just wondering about 'Zapateller'.
How exactly does it work!? I might be interested in employing it at work
here, but wondering if anyone's using it?
echo*CLI> show application Zapateller
-= Info about application 'Zapateller' =-
[Synopsis]:
Block telemarketers with SIT
[Description]:
Zapateller(options): Generates special information tone to block
telemarketers from calling you. Returns 0 normally or -1 on hangup.
Options is a pipe-delimited list of options. The following options
are available: 'answer' causes the line to be answered before playing
the tone, 'nocallerid' causes Zapateller to only play the tone if there
is no callerid information available. Options should be separated by |
characters</I></FONT></PRE>
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