On 24 Jul 2013, at 18:42, Bill Pechter wrote: > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 18:15:26 +0200 > > From: Conrad Wood <c...@conradwood.net> > > To: Scott Roberts <sco...@jhu.edu>> > > Cc: "tech@lists.lopsa.org" <tech@lists.lopsa.org> > > Subject: Re: [lopsa-tech] sysadmin day? > > Message-ID: <246dc17c-62ae-4776-8c27-120fbe749...@conradwood.net>> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Wed, Jul 2014 Conrad Wood wrote: > > > sounds like everyone is so obsessed with pagers (for nostalgic or other > > reasons) - I might use that as a present for the ssyadmins ;))) > > At least with pagers in my old Field Service days, you could decide if the > call was coming from the dispatch center or a local > customer by the area code... > > Now with cell phones, voip etc you have the 24x7 fun of getting a phone call > on the floating On Call Emergency Sysadmin Phone > saying, "You too can lower your mortgage payment." > > Love those at midnight... > > Call screening by caller id doesn't cut it anymore. > > Caller bots now call the university number that gets forwarded to the System > Down Cell 24x7. Ugh. > > Let's all hear it for the no longer useful Do Not Call list. The spammers > and crooks have won again. > > Anyone know how to get around this problem? I also never can tell where the > outsourced night time help desk will call from.
Hm.. I use VoIP Phonesystems for the past decade and since then never had this problem as I do the decision to do screening/forwarding via java & perl scripts & postgres ;) YMMV but I managed to filter out all the 'do you want some double-glazing window' and 'outsource to india' calls. Conrad _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
