off-topic: phone hangups

[Marvin GodfatherofSoul Bellamy]

Telcos are such scam artists.

1.    Block caller ID info to customers
2.    Sell access to caller ID info to customers as a new service
3.    Sell new caller ID blocks to telemarketers as a service
4.    Sell Super caller ID service to customers to override existing 
caller ID blocks
5.    Goto 3

Bob Batson wrote:

> At 9:00 PM -0500 5/29/02, I am Spartacus wrote:
>
>> 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. .........................
>
>
> [snip]
>
> I get them too over here in Missouri (Gladstone). They call between 
> 4pm and 7 pm. But my calls are completely quite. When I answer the 
> phone, the line's dead. I thought they were automated FAX machines, 
> but now I don't know. PS - Don't waste your money on Caller ID. It's 
> gotten practically useless.
>