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- From: niebuhr@bnlux1.bnl.gov (david niebuhr)
- Newsgroups: alt.privacy
- Subject: Re: Random phone number harassment
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.131927.12211@bnlux1.bnl.gov>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 13:19:27 GMT
- References: <phurley.78@tamu.edu>
- Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
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- In article <phurley.78@tamu.edu> phurley@tamu.edu (Philip W. Hurley) writes:
- >I just had something annoying happen which I suspect cannot be controlled or
- >avoided. Maybe someone out there has some thoughts.
- >
- >I was therefore very curious to find out where the salesman got the number
- >and found out that they were sequencially calling all numbers in town. They
- >offered to remove the number from their list for which I was grateful. Only
- >later did I realize that they *still* have my unlisted number. It's the one
- >between 123-4566 and 123-4568 which is left off the list BECAUSE ITS
- >UNLISTED. I supposed caller ID is supposed to help one avoid this problem?
- >
-
- CallerID won't help much in this scenario since the salesman admitted
- that he was sequencially calling all numbers. This happens a lot with
- computerized calls and is sometimes known as "war dialing."
-
- The only benefit that CallerID would give you is if the caller didn't
- block the distribution of his number AND he was calling from a phone
- whose line transmitted that information AND it didn't cross an areacode
- boundary.
-
- Dave
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