On Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:34:18 +0000, newshound wrote:

On 08/03/2013 16:56, Bob Eager wrote:
On Fri, 08 Mar 2013 08:39:02 -0800, pensive hamster wrote:

On 8 Mar, 16:12, Martin Brown
wrote:

I find an answerphone on the line works wonders on cold callers.
Failing that "Just hold the line and I will go and get him"...


I just say "Putting you through now " ...

If I was a telecoms geek, I would probably know how to add a recording
saying "Thank you for holding, your call is important to us". I
suppose the ultimate would be to hack their systems, to get all the
world's cold callers auto-dialling each other.

http://www.tavi.co.uk/you-are-not-the-next-caller.mp3



There must be a market for a cheap box that you hang on the line; hit a
button on a cold caller and it loops stuff like this and hangs up when
they do. I know someone made a smart box that carried on a fake
dialogue, waiting for gaps in the spiel and saying random variants of
"Sorry, could you repeat that". I would *really* like to have one of
those on each of my lines!

Asterisk can do both of those. The latter one is known as a telemarketer
torture script. It uses the asterisk WaitForSilence() function in the
dialplan.

A nice variation is here (just read the comments):

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/A...rketer+Torture





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