[LINK] New intrusive calls - over voip

[Craig Sanders]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 11:12:29AM +1000, Tom Worthington wrote:
> More seriously, if you want to have free phone calls to anywhere in
> the world, then you are going to have to expect people will want to
> call you from anywhere in the world. Perhaps phone companies will
> start giving away phone services and charging for call filtering.
> Being able to get calls from anyone will be free, but being able to
> NOT GET calls from anyone will be a value added service.

Asterisk [1]

DIY phone-spam filtering.

and getting to the point of not being DIY, but "plug in and choose some
options from a menu"

inevitably better than any spam-filtering provided by telcos because
it's developed by people who want to block spam themselves, without
the conflict of interest inherent in the fact that telcos make money
by selling phone service to phone spammers.


[1] http://www.asterisk.org/

craig

ps: charging extra to not be harassed strikes me as being very much akin
to extortion - "pay up or we'll let our other customers spam you"


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