[asterisk-users] Manual Wardialer

[Andreas van dem Helge]

So I can't dial my own number blocks for auditing? I do this manually
right now.... dial 1 number, dial another on and on it gets very
tedious and sometimes you loose your place. Approx every 2 months per
number. The companies using these numbers have very specific reasons
for requiring these audits, but franky I don't think its needed.

AFAIK in my state doing that is legal because:

1) Its not telemarketing
2) its with the intent to communicate (if someone answers an
3) its for a legit business purpose, so its not harassment
4) The owner of the numbers (my company) and the users of the number
(the clients) have expressly authorized this, although the law does
not mention authorization I think this would be justification enough.

I am not familar with any FTC / federal regulations since we don't
telemarket I didn't think they were relevant but you do remind me when
anything crosses a state line it can usually be considered "interstate
commerce"... any resource you might have for interstate phone calling
laws?

I was thinking VCDial too... let me give that a try I've always wanted
to mess with it anyways. I think I could load all the number ranges at
one time also instead of doing one range at a time like I was
thinking.

And yes this is not "war dialing" because I looked up the definition
and it seems "war dialing" is just scanning for modems, which is not
the case here.

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Matt Florell <astmattf at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  Sequential auto-dialing like this is pretty much illegal in the USA.
>  The FTC has specific regulations against this as well as several
>  states.
>
>
>  Obligatory Simpsons reference:
>  http://www.internerd.com/frink.retired/frinkv.3/inventions/at5000-2.gif
>  http://www.snpp.com/episodes/4F01.html
>

My servers generally don't have built in legs or otherwise any way to
automatically relocate itself :)