Message-ID: <20020530065821.60605.qmail@web14304.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 01:48:50 -0500 From: Matt Luettgen <crash3m@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: off-topic: phone hangups
I got 5 today, all of them convienently at a bad time,
when I was in the shower, when I was eating...its
gotten to the point where I no longer make an effort
to answer the phone as I either get hung up on or yell
at telemarketers about the missouri no call law.
--- Aaron <aaron@aarons.net> wrote:
> 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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