On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 01:32 +0100, Chris Bagnall wrote: > Greetings list, > > I've seen a lot of posts over the last couple of years on both -users and > -biz with people requesting help with "message blasting" setups - that is to > say, asterisk dials a number, waits for an answer, then plays a pre-recorded > message. > > Everyone I've ever spoken to about this here in the UK finds it thoroughly > offensive. If they answer the phone, they expect to find a human being at the > other end. Systems like this seem to draw far more ire from people than even > multi-level IVR systems (which aren't exactly popular either). > well systems like that are good for some situations, did you ask them the following: A volunteer fire department in a rural area uses an automated system to call firemen to an emergency, do you have a problem with that?
A school calls parents to let them know of a closure while school officials deal with inbound calls from parents. Do you have a problem with that? Or did you merely ask someone calls you unsolicited and plays a recording (illegal to do in the US at least, probably UK too if its for sales/marketing stuff) if that would be anoying? How you ask the question can greatly influence the response. Why polls should declare the wording of the questions used and not just the responses. -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel Belfast +44 28 9099 6461 US +1 516 687 5200 http://www.trxtel.com the phone company that pays you! _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
