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- Date: 2 Jan 1993 20:50:06 GMT
- From: rees@dabo.citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: More Harassement Questions
- Reply-To: Jim.Rees@umich.edu
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 1, Message 7 of 13
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- Suppose someone calls me every morning, lets the phone ring once, then
- hangs up, so that I never actually pick up the phone. Is that still
- considered harassement?
-
- If someone calls and lets the phone ring only once, will Caller-ID
- still be delivered?
-
- I'm asking for a friend. My own ringer is on a timer, so I don't hear
- it early in the morning. Two of my lines don't even ring at all.
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-
- [Moderator's Note: Tell your friend that everywhere I know, deliberatly
- causing the telephone of another person to ring for no purpose other
- than to harass or annoy is against the law. There need not be any
- actual conversation. Since Caller-ID is delivered between the first
- and second rings, it may or may not be delivered on such a call. Here
- in Chicago, it seems the data is sent immediatly on the end of the
- first ring, and most of the time when I've gotten 'one-ringers' the
- number has gotten here before the originating CO had a chance to tell
- my CO to disconnect the call, etc. I think it would be worth a shot to
- learn the identity of the caller; your friend might have to wait for a
- few calls to have the two CO's out of synch with each other just
- enough to allow your friend's CO to slide the information out to him.
- Then, he'll need to observe this a few more times just to assure
- himself that it is a deliberate, calculated activity. Won't the caller
- be surprised! Actually I think 'return last call received' -- *69 --
- might be even more reliable than Caller-ID, because once the caller
- hits your friend's CO, his number *is* in the buffer, and even if the
- CO does not get around to sending the ID in time (before the caller
- breaks the connection), causing the ID not to show up or to show up
- with errors in it, etc ... he'll still be able to call back. PAT]
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