[Asterisk-Users] Zapateller

Steve Murphy
Wed, 28 Jan 2004 11:24:58 -0000

Steve--

I'm using it, with the 'nocallerid' option. I think you are really
wondering about the
"special information" tones.  Remember ever hearing the message:

"Dee Dee Dee -- The number you have dialed has been disconnected" ,

or whatever?

The Dee-Dee-Dee tones rise in pitch. That's the "special Information
tones."

They have a hardware product at Walmart you can buy for $30-40 that does
this, but for
everyone, every time you pick up an incoming call. The theory is that
autodialers are made
to detect these tones and if present, will terminate the call, and
strike the "bad" number from
the list, whereas humans may think the tones curious, but will rarely
immediately hang up.

murf





On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 16:31, asterisk-users-request@lists.digium.com
wrote:

>
> ______________________________________________________________________
>
> From: Steve Foy <steve@unite.net>
> To: Asterisk-Users <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com>
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Zapateller
> Date: 26 Jan 2004 17:54:56 +0000
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm just wondering about 'Zapateller'.
>
> How exactly does it work!? I might be interested in employing it at work
> here, but wondering if anyone's using it?
>
> echo*CLI> show application Zapateller
>   -= Info about application 'Zapateller' =-
>
> [Synopsis]:
> Block telemarketers with SIT
>
> [Description]:
>   Zapateller(options):  Generates special information tone to block
> telemarketers from calling you.  Returns 0 normally or -1 on hangup.
> Options is a pipe-delimited list of options.  The following options
> are available: 'answer' causes the line to be answered before
playing
> the tone, 'nocallerid' causes Zapateller to only play the tone if
there
> is no callerid information available.  Options should be separated by |
> characters
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