So now you know the telemarketers but who are the rest of the callers. 

This is the first of a series of articles to sync information between Outlook and Asterisk.  The first is the export of VCards from Outlook. 

Outlook can easily export single vcards however, it doesn't do multiple at once.  Picture a 1000 contacts in your address book.  That's a little time...or 10 seconds with this macro.

If you use Asterisk and FreePBX (though likely easily converted to other interfaces if desired), Ward Mundy at NerdVittles wrote a great CallerID lookup script for the US market. 

For us in Canada, I've added Canada411 Personal and Business lookups too.

And to the title of the article, the real reason for the post, are you sick of Telemarketers (or other types of identified calls such as Non-Profits, Fax Machines, Political or Collection Agencies), then I have just the thing for you.  800notes.com provides a great lookup as well as several sister companies that seem to share the same data.  Given the popularity of the site, it has been very successful for me over the past year, so much so that 4 telemarketers managed to get through out of the 10 recorded daily on my asterisk box.  Now that they're identified, you can choose how to handle them.  I actually dump them to a separate voicemail called Junk.  I then email them to myself.  Don't even store them.  In a year, I've actually had upwards of a dozen (charities) leave me a message.  The rest, no wasted time since in email, I can see it's typically a sub 5 second message so i delete it immediately - Telemarketers on my terms...