Merge this into main kannel repo

[thedavidmccann]

This patch lead to a rather heated debate on the community mailing list, and an effort to get it merged was abandoned. Need to re-start the process.

[thedavidmccann]

@dial-osc-bot claim

[thedavidmccann]

@dial-osc-bot abandon

[thedavidmccann]

@dial-osc-bot label "wontfix"

[dial-osc-bot]

ERROR: Label "wontfix" does not exist and was thus not added to this issue.

[thedavidmccann]

@dial-osc-bot label "wontfix"

@dial-osc-bot claim this sucker

@dial-osc-bot claim

@dial-osc-bot claim or at least error msg pleez

[thedavidmccann]

@dial-osc-bot claim