[privacy] FTC Hangs Up on Telemarketers' Pitch

["Dave Killion" <dave.killion () gmail com>]

Helps if I hit 'reply all', huh?

-Dave

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dave Killion <dave.killion () gmail com>
Date: Oct 17, 2006 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: [privacy] FTC Hangs Up on Telemarketers' Pitch
To: Brian Loe <knobdy () gmail com>

I'm with Brian.  I'm on the DNC list, and I still get 3-5 calls per day, all
of which I've no previous business relation, so I use CallerID.  Any number
I don't recognize, I answer and hang-up in one fluid motion - I don't have
time to talk to these people.

Anyone I really care about talking to will call right back.  If they do and
asked what happen, I simply explain I'm having trouble with my phone that
results in people getting disconnected sometimes.

I'm very close to building a telephone firewall out of an Asterisk (
http://www.asterisk.org/) server and a telephone card (
http://www.digium.com/en/products/hardware/tdm400p.php).  I'd place it
in-line between my telephone company-supplied drop and the rest of the
house.

I figure it will set me back about $500 total for the card and then throw it
in a spare computer I've got lying around.  I'd set it up with a white list
of callerID's to automatically pass-through, and a recording for all others
that informs them I don't take sales calls, etc, and to press one if they
are not a sales call.

I just gotta find the time...

--
Dave Killion, CISSP
Contributing Author, Configuring NetScreen Firewalls


--
Dave Killion, CISSP
Contributing Author, Configuring NetScreen Firewalls

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