[asterisk-users] Call Stealing

[David Gibbons]

I'm confused as to why you think leaving a phone off the hook is better than parking the call and hanging up the phone. The phone that's off the hook can't receive any more calls after you've 'pulled' the one it was on the line with, assuming you don't walk back to that phone and subsequently hang it up, making the originating extension effectively useless. Call parking and hanging up the originating extension is actually a more elegant solution in my opinion.

--Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Geoff Lane
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 3:19 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Call Stealing

You just leave the phone off the hook, walk to the handset to which
you want to transfer the call, then dial the call-steal code. This
steals (captures) any active call within the same ring group. You
don't need to park the call first.