<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Tom Browning <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ttbrowning@gmail.com">ttbrowning@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>An exclusion adapter is overkill. My Asterisk line card is the $10 Win modem card that I got from ebay.<br><br>When you call my copper line, two devices see the inbound ringer:<br><br>1. The Uniden 5.8Ghz cordless phone base station that answers 95% of the calls<br>
2. Asterisk with a win modem line card that: a. runs a perl AGI script to parse caller-id name and number b. rings a sip extension or c. answers the call and plays funny messages and DTMF tones at the telemarketers.<br>
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Just make sure that Asterisk only RINGS the sip extensions but never sends the call to play a message or voicemail or any other Asterisk feature that will issue an implicit Answer and take the call.<br></blockquote><div>
<br>Yeah, except in the OP he mentions that he wants or is at least using Asterisk VM so your solution does not meet his needs. <br><br>@~$7 for the privacy adaptor does not seem like overkill to me, at least price wise. Easy solution so OP can "Can I have it both ways"</div>
</div><br>-- <br>Thanks,<br>Steve Totaro <br>+18887771888 (Toll Free)<br>+12409381212 (Cell)<br>+12024369784 (Skype)<br>