On Thursday, January 15, 2009, David Gibbons wrote: > I'm confused as to why you think leaving a phone off the hook is > better than parking the call and hanging up the phone.
Simply that you don't have to remember to park the call. With call parking, if you forget to park the call before moving location you have to return to the original location, park the call, then try again. With call stealing, you can't forget to park the call because it's not required. > The phone that's off the hook can't receive any more calls after > you've 'pulled' the one it was on the line with, assuming you don't > walk back to that phone and subsequently hang it up, making the > originating extension effectively useless. The first person to walk by the handset who hears the engaged tone hangs up. I've been using this system for about eight years and it's never been an issue. Also, the originating extension isn't effectively useless because if you hear the phone in the next room ring, you can hang up the originating extension and within a couple of seconds it also rings so that you can take the call. > Call parking and hanging up the originating extension is actually a > more elegant solution in my opinion. I can see pros and cons to each. However, I (and all my family) are used to call stealing so it would be better if we could duplicate that rather than having to "retrain" everyone to use call parking. -- Geoff _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users