[Asterisk-Users] Blocking the 'Do Not Call" List

[Chris Shaw]

I got to thinking about that too after I posted... nevermind, AGI would be
the way to go here anyway... I was thinking ZapaTeller or personal block
lists, which are WAY easier to use with DBPUT/GET... This is too massive for
that...

    Good Luck! :)

    -Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Josh Roberson" <twisted at indigent-networks.com>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 10:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Blocking the 'Do Not Call" List


> Chris,   While you are thinking logically, This will just as
> un-effective as putting them all in the dialplan, as the DBGet() and
> DBPut() functionality deals with the internal astdb (db1 database).
>
> I would reccomend going the AGI route at this time, until we have better
> functionality for DB handling.
>
> -Josh
>
> Chris Shaw wrote:
>
> >Why use AGI? Why not just use the builtin DBGet() and DBPut() functions
in
> >*?
> >
> >    -Chris
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "drodden" <drodden at webunited.net>
> >To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> >Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 9:22 AM
> >Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Blocking the 'Do Not Call" List
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>Anybody have any experience with blocking numbers in the U.S's Do Not
> >>Call list?
> >>
> >>We have a customer that will be getting their own Asterisk server from
> >>us, and they want it to be check outbound numbers against the do not
> >>call list; this is for a backup, in case there's a slip up and one of
> >>their people try to dial somebody on the do not call list.
> >>
> >>The list has millions of numbers, and I don't think the extensions.conf
> >>file could handle me listing all million+ phone numbers and making it
> >>play a sound like "That number is on the do not call list", and then
> >>creating a _NXXNXXNXXX extension at the very bottom. The list would take
> >>up all it's memory. Anybody have a more elegant solution? Maybe an AGI
> >>script to match the outbound phone number against a column in a table in
> >>a MySQL database? Is there something similar already written that I can
> >>just modify?
> >>
> >>
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