Re: OT: telephone black box

donald wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:

On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:23:53 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
<mike.terrell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

JeffM wrote:

Ross Herbert wrote:

And if by some human error, a legitimate caller is included in the black list,
and upon hearing the loud message or being diverted to police/FBI,
then complains to the communications regulating authority,
how are you going to explain that you have connected
a possibly unauthorised piece of equipment to the telco line?

Since deregulation in the 1980s,
there's almost nothing you can't hook to your phone line in the USA.
The exception is an fully-automated spam call maker
--and it being illegal
doesn't seem to stop the douchebags from doing that anyway.



I'd like to get my hands on the SOBs running the ones for Obama. I'm
tired of having the damn things wake me up. It would be a case of
justified homicide.


I'm mulling over a design for a box that blanks the first ring, reads
the CID... no match to addressbook = continues to blank ring and lets
it roll into VM (legitimate caller, cold caller won't wait that long).

800, 877, etc... short line to "answer" call with dead air ;-)

I'll need help from a person experienced with uP's. I can manage the
analog.

...Jim Thompson

Hi Jim,

Do you want a PC app or and embedded app ?

I ask because, how would you get the "addressbook" information into an embedded app.

A PC app has the entire PC for "database" storage.

Of course, "blanking" the line for all extensions maybe a problem.

donald
It must be a stand-alone especially for decent sales.
Most people will not tolerate a computer in his kitchen where the phone outlet is (space, looks, etc).
It would be nice, but not too cost effective and/or feasable to use the attached phone's keypad, so...one seems to be stuck with having a keypad on the black box.
.

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