Some telemarketer’s autodialler called me up, and when I picked up:

“Please listen carefully, this is not an advertisement, this is a public information announcement. Are you in debt… ?”

…and then it tried to connect me to a debt-management company – and it didn’t get through.

So it sent me to voicemail. Big mistake.

“To replay press 1, to append to this recording, press 2…”

Pressing “1” every so often, I walked over to my Mac, googled “DTMF Tones MP3“, loaded the DTMF for “1” into iTunes and left it on loop and pointing at my phone:

Then I went to make tea. It’s been running for 31 minutes so far, and the handset battery is generally good for an hour or two.

I hope they pay a surcharge for this sort of thing, but if nothing else it ties up one of their phone lines. 🙂

Now I feel a shellscript is in the offing – something with timer delays and the like. I used to have something like that back in the 90s for modem management, so here’s a new use…