[Asterisk-Users] Grandstream transfer into outer space

[Jim Rosenberg]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 05:14:35PM -0500, I wrote:
> So: now I've got my caller just sitting there, transferred into nowhere.
> Is there a way to pick the caller up? I haven't found a way to do this.

Sorry to be a nag, but no one answered the original question. Is there a
way to pick up a stranded call???

If Asterisk "doesn't do this", what about the idea of creating a new
channel for this purpose? It seems to me it should be feasible, but I
haven't spent any time with the code, so am just speculating off the top
of my head. It could work kind of like picking up a parked call: you'd
have a .conf where you specifiy e.g. an extension that will pick up the
first stranded call.

It seems to me this issue is pretty important. If you're thinking of
Asterisk competing against a commerical PBX, having a situation where a
call can get stranded with no way to pick it up is a significant flaw.
I've seen PBXs that could be set up so that any call not picked up
after some length of time magically rang back to the operator.