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[joakimsen at gmail.com]

Does anyone have a script for manual wardialer for asterisk? not sure
if "wardialer" is the correct term but basically I want to call X
number say 555-0000 through 555-0050 and be able to listen to each
call and when I hang up or press a key it will dial the next number
for me. I guess sort of like "scanning" an exchange but I want to be
on the line and if possible complete / talk on certain calls.

[tzafrir.cohen at xorco...]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 06:41:44PM -0400, Andreas van dem Helge wrote:

[lee at datatrakpos.com]

Andreas van dem Helge wrote:

[stotaro at totarotechn...]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Lee Jenkins <lee at datatrakpos.com> wrote:

[astmattf at gmail.com]

Hello,

Sequential auto-dialing like this is pretty much illegal in the USA.
The FTC has specific regulations against this as well as several
states.
Obligatory Simpsons reference:
http://www.internerd.com/frink.retired/frinkv.3/inventions/at5000-2.gif
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/4F01.html


MATT---


On 4/27/08, Arthur <pylinuxian at gmail.com> wrote:

[stotaro at totarotechn...]

Legalities aside, I could see valid use for such a dialer.

If you ran a call center/business and had a couple hundred or even
thousands of (sequential) DIDs and you wanted to audit routing, then
this would be a good tool.

I have seen many unwieldy and gigantic systems that have numbers that
go to the wrong department or even dead ends. A contact at ADT has
asked for similar functionality.

BTW, I will be releasing a dialer under the GPL shortly that has a
very low profile, AJAX web interface, and will be able to do just what
you want. You will have to upload the numbers to the system as CSV
file, but that should be able to create in any spreadsheet program.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Matt Florell <astmattf at gmail.com> wrote:

[stotaro at totarotechn...]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Arthur <pylinuxian at gmail.com> wrote:

[joakimsen at gmail.com]

So I can't dial my own number blocks for auditing? I do this manually
right now.... dial 1 number, dial another on and on it gets very
tedious and sometimes you loose your place. Approx every 2 months per
number. The companies using these numbers have very specific reasons
for requiring these audits, but franky I don't think its needed.

AFAIK in my state doing that is legal because:

1) Its not telemarketing
2) its with the intent to communicate (if someone answers an
3) its for a legit business purpose, so its not harassment
4) The owner of the numbers (my company) and the users of the number
(the clients) have expressly authorized this, although the law does
not mention authorization I think this would be justification enough.

I am not familar with any FTC / federal regulations since we don't
telemarket I didn't think they were relevant but you do remind me when
anything crosses a state line it can usually be considered "interstate
commerce"... any resource you might have for interstate phone calling
laws?

I was thinking VCDial too... let me give that a try I've always wanted
to mess with it anyways. I think I could load all the number ranges at
one time also instead of doing one range at a time like I was
thinking.

And yes this is not "war dialing" because I looked up the definition
and it seems "war dialing" is just scanning for modems, which is not
the case here.

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Matt Florell <astmattf at gmail.com> wrote:

[astmattf at gmail.com]

On 4/27/08, Andreas van dem Helge <joakimsen at gmail.com> wrote:

[pylinuxian at gmail.com]

[tzafrir.cohen at xorco...]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:37:29AM +0000, Arthur wrote:

[stotaro at totarotechn...]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 6:37 AM, Arthur <pylinuxian at gmail.com> wrote:

[pylinuxian at gmail.com]

[stotaro at totarotechn...]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Arthur <pylinuxian at gmail.com> wrote:

[stotaro at totarotechn...]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 7:40 AM, Arthur <pylinuxian at gmail.com> wrote: