http://blog.matthewgast.com/2006/10/31/defeating-telemarketers-with-asterisk/ A former physicist tries to make sense of technology Mon, 21 May 2012 01:30:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://blog.matthewgast.com/2006/10/31/defeating-telemarketers-with-asterisk/#comment-44227 telemarketing lists Wed, 21 May 2008 21:31:26 +0000 http://blog.matthewgast.com/2006/10/31/defeating-telemarketers-with-asterisk/#comment-44227 This sounds like some great advice. Will have to give this a try! This sounds like some great advice. Will have to give this a try!

]]> http://blog.matthewgast.com/2006/10/31/defeating-telemarketers-with-asterisk/#comment-5 Surfing the Luminiferous Ether » Blog Archive » Robo-caller, meet Asterisk. And then go to a special circle of hell. Tue, 07 Nov 2006 02:13:21 +0000 http://blog.matthewgast.com/2006/10/31/defeating-telemarketers-with-asterisk/#comment-5 [...] The campaign caught making repeated phone calls has blamed the telemarketing contractor, saying that it was obviously a mis-configured computer. Well, those campaigns can retain their mis-configured computer, because my correctly configured Asterisk machine will handle the calls appropriately. I’ll make my voting decision in peace, by reviewing sources of information I trust. (Hint to campaign managers: this probably is not you.) Please, make as many calls as you want. My computer is happy to listen to you spew your message, and it will deliver it to me if it is appropriate. I have programmed my computer with an algorithm that is working quite well so far, namely, that all telemarketing calls should be discarded. [...] [...] The campaign caught making repeated phone calls has blamed the telemarketing contractor, saying that it was obviously a mis-configured computer. Well, those campaigns can retain their mis-configured computer, because my correctly configured Asterisk machine will handle the calls appropriately. I’ll make my voting decision in peace, by reviewing sources of information I trust. (Hint to campaign managers: this probably is not you.) Please, make as many calls as you want. My computer is happy to listen to you spew your message, and it will deliver it to me if it is appropriate. I have programmed my computer with an algorithm that is working quite well so far, namely, that all telemarketing calls should be discarded. [...]

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