[asterisk-dev] Default Caller ID

[David Ruggles]

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On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Malcolm C. Davenport
<malcolmd at digium.com>wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Tilghman Lesher
> > <tilghman at meg.abyt.es> wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 23 February 2011 12:28:33 Malcolm C. Davenport wrote:
> > >> What say you, community members? Would making some change to the
> > >> default caller identification so as to not present "asterisk," be a
> > >> good thing? Or, are we garnering more benefit through our spreading
> > >> of
> > >> "asterisk?" Or, perhaps it's important to your implementation that
> > >> "asterisk," remain the default presentation?
> > >
> > > I suspect there's many systems which are configured presently to
> > > deal with
> > > the callerid being presented as "asterisk", and changing it is
> > > likely to
> > > cause a whole new round of "It wasn't broken; WTF did Digium change
> > > it?"
> > >
> >
> > This would go to a new branch, right? Then I think changing the
> > behavior should be just fine.
> >
> > Personally I would go with the simplest approach IMHO: change
> > 'asterisk' for 'unknown'. Everyone is familiar with 'unknown'.
> >
> > /My 2 cents
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > --
> > /Saúl
> > http://saghul.net | http://sipdoc.net
> >
>
> Yes, it would be something that would be applied for Asterisk 1.10 and
> forward, not something that would be applied going backwards.
>
> Thanks to you, and everyone else for their feedback thusfar.  If someone
> else has an opinion, please keep the discussion going.
>
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