I have an Asterisk exchange at home (1 message asking people to choose a digit for the person they want to speak to cuts 99% of telemarketers) The thing that a

I have an Asterisk exchange at home (1 message asking people to choose a digit for the person they want to speak to cuts 99% of telemarketers) The thing that annoys me the most about being on hold is that it requires attention from me that eats into me doing other stuff while I wait .... in fact if the people who you're calling are too bust to talk to you right now it's they who should be on hold. So the thing I keep meaning to implement for my exchange is a feature that puts a line into a "waiting for hold" state - you do this and put the phone down - Asterisk keeps saying to the still open line "I still want to talk to you, please press '' when a real person is on the line" ... when they take you off of hold they press '', your phone rings you answer and talk to them