Re: [hylafax-users] dialrules config problems

[Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca>]

* Jay R. Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> [030709 14:51]:
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 11:21:54AM -0700, Lee Howard wrote:
> > On 2003.07.09 07:14 Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > > Customer is in 727-535.  There are 5 different dialling patterns they
> > > might have to use.
> > > 
> > > 727, local (Clearwater):      dial 7 digits
> > > 727, toll (New Port Richey):  dial 1 + 727 + 7 digits (there's a LATA
> > > split)
> > > 813, ECS (Tampa):             dial 813 + 7 digits
> > > 813, toll (Lakeland):         dial 1 + 813 + 7 digits (second metro
> > > away)
> > > other toll:                   dial 1 + 10 digits

I had a similar setup in Ottawa-Hull, with 613/819.

I had numbers in 613 and 819 which had to be dialed with only 7 digits,
somein 819 that needed 10, and lots in 613/819 that needed 10.

> > You'll want to expand the lines:
> > 
> > ^[+]1727535		= 535			! local call, 7-digit 
> > call
> > ^[+]1813555		= 813555		! local call, 10-digit 
> > call
> > 
> > To include every prefix in the 727 and 813 area codes which are local.  
> > Referring to your local telephone book should provide these.  
> > Unfortunately, this intelligence must be programmed-in, and I don't 
> > know any other easy way around it unless the local prefixes are 
> > sequential or something.

Been there, done that, and although painfull to setup, it works.

> > Hope this helps.
> 
> Alas, it does not.
> 
> In these days, as I note, of competitive local exchange carriers, there
> is *no way that I know of* to get a listing of *all* local prefixes --
> especially since it varies from carrier to carrier.
> 
> I do see the alternative approach you're taking there, I just don't
> think I can acquire the data to do it.

That data is needed either way, even if there was another mechanism,
that data is needed.  For a given number, you need to know which case it
is.  How you build the rules doesn't negate that need...

> And besides, doing it that way *breaks* the few prefixes in 727 for
> which the +1 *is* required.

Only if the rules are wrong...
 
> Damn PSC's.  Thanks anyway.

I feel your pain....  But that data is needed...

Depending on how cruel you are, an autodialer could probably get you
most of that data ;-) (Check your local telco regulations first!)

a.

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