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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1506.1 | KP7/SELECT to add TELEPHONES | DCVAX::PAVLICEK | Zot, the Ethical Hacker | Fri Jun 21 1991 10:20 | 5 |
| While this sounds quite interesting -- and disgusting, I might add --
you may wish to discuss this in BTOVT::TELEPHONES or somewhere more
appropriate for the subject matter.
-- Russ (not a moderator, nor do I play one on TV)
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| 1506.2 | Don't *SAY* anything!!!!!!! | CTHQ2::MOHN | blank space intentionally filled | Fri Jun 21 1991 12:55 | 14 |
| It could be even more disgusting to DEC. There have been cases where
this kind of computer-generated trash call has been sent to every phone
in a DEC site (just cycling through the DID numbers). If anyone at
work "accepts" a collect call of this nature, DEC gets the bill!! I
wonder if the voice recognition capabilities employed in this scam are
good enough NOT to recognize random voice mail/answering machine
messages ("Yes, as you can see, I can't come to the phone right
now..."). Certainly hope so.
Usually this kind of company would use an "alternative" operator
services company, so accepting a collect call could cost a LOT more
than you might expect.
Bill
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| 1506.3 | | BUNYIP::QUODLING | I'll have some of what Marketing is Smoking... | Fri Jun 21 1991 18:12 | 9 |
| Are you sure it was a telephone solicitation. Several Phone Companies (nynex
included) now use computers as part of their collect call handling system. It
could be that Liberty Tree mumble is a telephone company and was routing a
collect call from a relative.
If you don't like then complain to your phone company....
q
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| 1506.4 | | ASIC::BARTOO | Roboco-op 2 | Sat Jun 29 1991 09:09 | 6 |
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Also, a solicitation company has no right to ask you to accept the
call. A telephone company operator has to be the one to say "Will you
accept charges..."
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| 1506.5 | | REGENT::POWERS | | Tue Jul 02 1991 10:01 | 7 |
| > Also, a solicitation company has no right to ask you to accept the
> call. A telephone company operator has to be the one to say "Will you
> accept charges..."
Reply .3 was referring to telephone companies that use computer voice
recognition to handle collect calls. One does not have to be a HUMAN
telephone operator to ask if the called party will accept the charges.
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| 1506.6 | Now how did I know your name?... :-) | ASIC::BARTOO | Roboco-op 2 | Thu Jul 04 1991 00:03 | 9 |
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RE: .5
Thanks for that clarification, Tom, but I was refering to the basenote
just as .3 was. I was offering another reason why it probably wasn't
a sales company.
Nick
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