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Asterisk, again

I dragged out a Cisco (Linksys) SPA3102 and finally got around to setting up Asterisk at home. The final motivation? Easy “routing” of annoying (800|866|877|etc|no caller id) callers straight to voicemail.

Despite being on all the “do not call” lists I still get too many (= some) unsolicited calls representing entities rather than people I know. My new crazy complicated answering machine can now route them straight to voicemail where they will not leave a message but also not ever ring my actual phone.

I don’t just blacklist them outright because once and a while one of those suspicious looking numbers is actually a call I want (“Dear Ken, Is it really you buying all this shiny? –your credit card”) but all of those DO leave messages.

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2 Responses to “Asterisk, again”

  1. Ryan Kennedy Says:
    July 3rd, 2009 at 10:04 pm

    You should doc your setup, it sounds interesting and it looks like you can get a SPA3102 pretty cheap on Amazon.

  2. Ken Says:
    July 4th, 2009 at 4:19 pm

    I plan to write something up once it’s been working a few days and I’m reasonably sure my config actually works.