<html><body>I could definitely see a use for such a tool.<br><br>
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Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Manual Wardialer<br>
From: "Steve Totaro" <stotaro@totarotechnologies.com><br>
Date: Sun, April 27, 2008 11:37 am<br>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"<br>
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Legalities aside, I could see valid use for such a dialer.<br>
<br>
If you ran a call center/business and had a couple hundred or even<br>
thousands of (sequential) DIDs and you wanted to audit routing, then<br>
this would be a good tool.<br>
<br>
I have seen many unwieldy and gigantic systems that have numbers that<br>
go to the wrong department or even dead ends. A contact at ADT has<br>
asked for similar functionality.<br>
<br>
BTW, I will be releasing a dialer under the GPL shortly that has a<br>
very low profile, AJAX web interface, and will be able to do just what<br>
you want. You will have to upload the numbers to the system as CSV<br>
file, but that should be able to create in any spreadsheet program.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Steve Totaro<br>
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On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Matt Florell <<a href="http://email.secureserver.net/pcompose.php#Compose" onclick="Popup.composeWindow('pcompose.php?sendto=astmattf%40gmail.com'); return false;">astmattf<b></b>@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hello,<br>
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> Sequential auto-dialing like this is pretty much illegal in the USA.<br>
> The FTC has specific regulations against this as well as several<br>
> states.<br>
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> Obligatory Simpsons reference:<br>
> <a href="http://www.internerd.com/frink.retired/frinkv.3/inventions/at5000-2.gif" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.internerd.com/frink.retired/frinkv.3/inventions/at5000-2.gif">http://www.internerd.com/frink.retired/frinkv.3/inventions/at5000-2.gif</a></a><br>
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> MATT---<br>
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> On 4/27/08, Arthur <<a href="http://email.secureserver.net/pcompose.php#Compose" onclick="Popup.composeWindow('pcompose.php?sendto=pylinuxian%40gmail.com'); return false;">pylinuxian<b></b>@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > some people use a "war dialer" to provide call centers with numbers for<br>
> > their campaigns ... if number called rings the number is valid if it doesn't<br>
> > its invalid & discarded. i wonder if that is legal .. its basically a scan<br>
> > of the network for valid numbers (that is potential buyers).<br>
> > i once was contacted by a company who offered this kind of service but i<br>
> > didn't trust them ... & the numbers without names is ugly.<br>
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