Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] Increasing required time to answer a call: Opinion

[Damien Sandras <damien sandras it-optics com>]

> 1. I'm upstairs.. I live in a brownstone it's going to take more than a
> minute to get down three flights of stairs and even with the advent of
> Unanswered calls I may not be able to call this person back because of
> their setup or whatever have you. In which case they leave or assume I'm
> not around.
> 

See my previous mail. Btw, I'm not sure openh323 permits infinite
calling.

> 2. Can you forward from one place to the next to the next to the next? I
> haven't tried..
> 

Yes, no problem.

> 3. Deny Feature :)
> Deny "X" person from calling? An automatic reject feature based on a
> persons callto:// or worst case scenario ip. ? 
> 
> Lets say someone wants to abuse the above, so they call you.. repeatedly
> and you have to keep rejecting their calls, over and over and over. It'd
> get annoying.
> 

You could deny following the IP, but IP's are dynamic, so that is a bad
idea and H.323 doesn't transmit callto addresses. That was discussed
over and over again a few months ago.


> On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 17:26, Damien Sandras wrote:
> > Goerge, and the others,
> > 
> > The current behavior is the following:
> > - when you are calling somebody, there is one minute timeout for the
> > other person to answer the call.
> > - but on the other side, since a few releases, GnomeMeeting rejects the
> > call after 15 seconds, or forward it after 15 seconds if you didn't
> > accept it.
> > 
> > I propose to do the following:
> > - when you are calling somebody, he has 1 minute to answer you, or the
> > local gnomemeeting stops calling.
> > - when you are called, it rings until the other person stops calling (ie
> > 1 minute), but if you chose to forward on no answer, it forwards the
> > call after that minute.
> > 
> > I wonder :
> > - should I let the user configure that 1 minute, ie choose a value
> > between 10 seconds and 59 seconds
> > - or is it excessive and hardcoding it to 1 minute, or to 30 seconds is
> > a better idea?
> > 
> > don't forget, before adding a setting to gnomemeeting, it must be proved
> > it is really useful, or users get lost in all the settings.
> > 
> > Thanks for your advice.
> > 
> > PS: I vote for a 45 second time, harcoded.
>  
> -- Christopher Warner 
> [KC] http://www.kernelcode.com
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