off-topic: phone hangups

[Mick Ohrberg]

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SWB has something prett nifty that's called 'Privacy Manager' or
something like that. Whenever someone calls your house, they have to
state name and purpose. If they decide not to do so, the phone at
your home doesn't even ring, and when it does, you get to hear who is
calling and what they want BEFORE you actually talk to the person,
and can this way decide if you want to accept or decline the call.

Of course, they charge an outrageous amount for this, but it would
eliminate all calls like that.

	/Mick

| -----Original Message-----
| From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net 
| [mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net] On Behalf Of Aaron
| Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 9:07 PM
| To: I am Spartacus; kclug
| Subject: Re: off-topic: phone hangups
| 
| 
| Dunno, but I get maybe 4 or 5 a day.  I blame it all on Microsoft.
| 
| Aaron
| 
| 
| 
| > i know this is really off-topic, but i want to see if there are
| > others in the kansas city area experiencing the same problem that
| > i am.  about  6 months ago i started receiving a couple of calls
| > just about every day  from what i believe are automated dialers
| > of some sort.  when i picked  up the phone and said hello, there
| > was a brief 1-second pause (give or  take) and then a click and
| > the line goes dead.  annoying, but not  horrible.  they only came
| > during the day.  lately, like within the last  2 months, i have
| > been receiving about 8-12 of these every single day.  
| >  it's getting out of hand.  when i try to *69 the caller, i get
| > the SWB  friendly greeting "the number you have tried to trace is
| > not available  with these features".  no, i don't have caller-ID
| > and i probably should  get it.  i just don't use the phone that
| > often and didn't want to bear  the expense.
| > 
| > does anyone else have the same problem at their phone number?  is
| > this  a telemarketing thing i'm not aware of?  any clues would be
| > appreciated,  if for no other reason than to satisfy my
| > curiosity.
| > 
| > thanks.
| > 
| > shannon merritt
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