Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Tom Lowe Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Persistent Wrong Number Bozos Message-ID: <5153@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 13 Mar 90 13:55:48 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 28 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 172, Message 4 of 10 stank@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (Stan Krieger) writes: > So, in order to make sure that the error > wasn't one of my dialing or the telcos switching, I asked the person > if I had reached (516) etc.; she said "no". OK, so I called that > number again, and of course the same person answered. > Now, I can almost understand people not wanting to give away their > phone number to a person who reached them by mistake, but if I already > have their phone number, and tell them what it is, it means I didn't > reach them by mistake, so at that point what difference does it make? In many business environments, people don't necessarily know exactly what number they are answering. It may be a pots line that is used exclusively for a toll-free number (although no restrictions on calling the pots number), or part of a hunt group or any one of other strange arrangements. At one of my former jobs, my phone could potentially be reached by dialing 3 or 4 different numbers, and I had no idea which number had actually been dialed. Then again, maybe they were just lying to you. Tom Lowe AT&T tel@cdsdb1.ATT.COM