Free CALL BLOCK or Call Screening or Privacy Manager or ACR

Posts: 318 · Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 5:20 pm Post subject:

i think it's obvious pankej's native language is not english, and while some of it does sound a bit funny, i am still able to interpret meaning out of it.

don't be so hard on the fellow, I'm personally grateful to him for pointing out this tool Smile

Posts: 78 · Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 5:20 pm Post subject: Obviously

vonagebest wrote:

Pankej,

Have you ever look at this link???

http://vonage.com/features.php?feature=caller_id_block

Stop using all caps...Please..

Honestly, I could not even understand half of your ramblings.

It is blatantly obvious that you didn't comprehend wht Pankej said.

Am I to believe you folks at Vonage, Paetec and Focal have never heard of ACR? Anonymous Call Rejection. I know it's a feature on both the Lucent #5ESS and Nortel's DMS-100 but for some reason, Vonage chooses not to implement it.

It's all I want - ACR. Everything else works fine. But this is obviously falling on dead ears at Vonage.

Posts: 176 · Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 6:07 pm Post subject:

otaku wrote:

i think it's obvious pankej's native language is not english, and while some of it does sound a bit funny, i am still able to interpret meaning out of it.

don't be so hard on the fellow, I'm personally grateful to him for pointing out this tool Smile

What sets me off immediately is a low post count, coupled with all giant caps and incoherent sentences. I immediately think spammer. Sorry.

Posts: 188 · Vonage Forum Master Joined: Mar 07, 2004 Posts: 188

vonagebest wrote:

Pankej,

Have you ever look at this link???

http://vonage.com/features.php?feature=caller_id_block

Stop using all caps...Please..

Honestly, I could not even understand half of your ramblings.

(Rolls eyes and shakes head) Vonage just does not get it. Mad

WE WANT ACR!!!

Posts: 93 · Vonage Forum Senior Joined: Feb 01, 2005 Posts: 93

THanks for easy on me.

I want to save money and use free feature to my voange-family.

Thanks for understanding my hard english.

Spread a word because "free is free"

Posts: 93 · Vonage Forum Senior Joined: Feb 01, 2005 Posts: 93

Anonymous Call Rejection (ACR)

Say goodbye to "Number Blocked" and "Anonymous."
Unfortunately, we all receive those annoying "Name and Number Blocked" or "Anonymous" calls. Fortunately, they won't bother you again - thanks to ACR from Lingo.

Simply activate ACR at your convenience. Then if a caller deliberately blocks their name and number, Lingo will reject the call. In fact, the phone won't even ring in your home or office. The caller will be notified that you're not accepting any calls from unidentified calls. Of course, you will receive calls from those who show up as "Unavailable."

Finally, we can leave those secretive callers behind and take only those calls we really want!

Info From LINGO website

Posts: 3198 · Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 4:12 pm Post subject:

there are a lot of voip providers that offer acr.

Posts: 93 · Vonage Forum Senior Joined: Feb 01, 2005 Posts: 93

Identify callers and zap telemarketers with PhoneTray Free - FREE Caller ID software.
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Know who is calling

PhoneTray uses your modem to identify the callers before you answer the phone. You must subscribe to the caller id service from your phone company and have a CallerID capable modem.

When a call comes in, PhoneTray rings and shows a balloon with the caller's name and number. The program can also display full screen so you can see who's calling from a distance. PhoneTray also announces incoming calls using text-to-speech engine. You can select to announce caller's name, number or both.

PhoneTray allows you to assign names to your frequent callers. The name you assign will be displayed and announced instead of Caller ID info. You can set a different ringtone for each caller or type of callers. 20 ringtones are included with the program plus you can use any wav file.
"great program... would be worth paying for... but FREEE is divine."
Joe
Keep a complete history of your incoming calls

PhoneTray logs all your incoming calls. It keeps the date, time, name and phone number of each call. You can view a complete call history or calls received today, this week or this month. You can select what type of calls you want to see - all calls, local calls, long distance calls etc.

Call history is stored in a standard CSV file and can be edited and exported to other programs using Microsoft Excel.
"Your program greatly exceeds the abilities of my current phone service provider. I used to pay a monthly fee to have a call manager filter through unwanted phone calls. Not any more! Phonetray gives me back the freedom of my phone line. Not only does Phonetray save me money, I can also manipulate the settings to my desire!"
JJ
Protect your privacy

Privacy Manager allows you to configure how PhoneTray handles incoming calls. For example, you can set PhoneTray to automatically answer all calls from private (blocked) numbers after first ring and play a message telling the caller to unblock his/her number.

PhoneTray can block calls from specific numbers or reject any other type of unwanted calls (blocked number, out of area etc.) by answering and playing selected message. Several useful messages are included with PhoneTray. You can also record your own wav files and use them with the program.

If you don't want to be bothered by late calls, you can set your "quite time" and PhoneTray will block all calls during that time. Important numbers can be marked so they ring through anytime.

All Privacy Manager settings including names and numbers are stored in a standard CSV file and can be imported from or exported to other programs using Microsoft Excel.
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Zap telemarketing and other unwanted calls

PhoneTray can automatically 'zap' telemarketers with a special 'number disconnected' tone. After receiving this tone telemarketer's computer will delete your number from its database. The program can play Federal 'do-not-call' warning forcing telemarketers to remove you from their calling lists - by law!

You can set the program to reject unwanted calls manually or automatically after selected number of rings. If you select to zap the calls manually the program pop-ups a dialog and lets you decide if you want to zap this call or not.

Posts: 2 · New Forum Member Joined: Feb 08, 2005 Posts: 2

I don't get pankej2000, he is still the number one "car salesman" for PhoneTray. When the thread begins to come to an end, he puts his sales pitch right back up.
Why do you not want Vonage to provide ACR? Why are you touting this product so heavily? Once again, many of us do not use a computer in front of our service. Even if we do, you seem a little disingenuous to me, since you are so concerned with two things: People try PhoneTray and Vonage not spending time coming up with their own ACR. Am I the only person that sees this? If so, I'll stop pointing it out.

Posts: 64 · Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 8:40 am Post subject: InTeleScreener is a Great Product

InTeleScreener (a retail product) blocks all "Anonymous," "Private," "Out-Of-Area," and any Area Code, number or name you do not wish to hear from.
You can set it to play "SIT, Service Interruption Tones" on these types of calls. The caller is fooled into thinking the number has been disconnected. Great for those Automatic Dialers that many telemarketers use.
I have three of these units on all my phones and never does a telemarketer, politician, non-profit organization, etc., gets through without identification... then I add 'em to the "List!"