Anon call rejection with Speakeasy VOIP?
Sam
so, in the somewhat less unlikely event that someone here uses SE VOIP, care
to share if SE's VOIP can do anonymous call rejection? Can't figure it out,
based on the production description.
I do see that it has call blocking -- a blacklisting of specific phone
numbers, but what about anonymous call rejection -- blocking of any call
that does not carry Caller ID?
Duncan
cone.119750220...@commodore.email-scan.com, excerpted below,
on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:30:03 -0600:
Group's still active, AFAIK, but very few posts.
As you can no doubt tell from my munged but unmungable email address, I'm
no longer an SE user, so of course don't have their VoIP. I do have
(third party) VoIP, however, and am very happy with it.
Here, there's a multi-way choice. Both the specific block-list and anon
call can be blocked (recording saying it's blocked), busy-signalled,
routed to voicemail, or for anon or out of area, and this is the
interesting one (and the one I chose), routed thru a prompt for the
caller to dial a random set of numbers, thus proving both that it's a
human (not automated) and that they deliberately chose to dial thru.
There's a similar set of routing options (sans random number option) for
their scheduled do-not-disturb feature (with a list of numbers allowed
thru anyway, if you want). Since I work nites, I have DND set for
several hours during the day, and have it route to my voicemail. That
has worked great! =8^)
Just so you know what sort of options are possible... In consideration
of the topicality and as I'm /not/ selling it, I'm not mentioning the
name of the provider, but if you really want to know, see the x-munging
headers and mail me.
FWIW, I've yet to get a single phone spam since I switched. It's /so/
nice to know it's /always/ someone you actually /want/ to be able to call
you, especially for folks like me that work nites that the spam tends to
wake up. (To be fair, I /did/ choose to abandon my previous number when
I switched, however, as it was just getting too many spam calls. The new
number is I suspect a brand new 3-digit prefix, 100% VoIP users most
likely, so part of it is likely that the phone spammers don't have that
prefix on their lists, yet. I do have an unpublished number, of course.
Still, not a single phone spam yet! =8^)
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I suppose you've thought of calling SE and asking, unless of course
their ACR rejects your call....
Sam
> I suppose you've thought of calling SE and asking, unless of course
> their ACR rejects your call....
Certainly, but I understand, very well, their salesreps' motivations. Not
that I would suggest anything untoward, heavens-to-betsy, but for questions
like these, it's always better to get some honest-to-goodness user feedback.