Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Dave Levenson Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Persistent Wrong Number Bozos, Unlisted Numbers, Collect Calls Message-ID: <5327@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 18 Mar 90 17:30:11 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: Westmark, Inc., Warren, NJ, USA Lines: 22 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 183, Message 1 of 9 In article <5216@accuvax.nwu.edu>, roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes: ... > Now, the unlisted and collect story. We're getting involved > in a legal situation. The details are not important, other than the > telecom part. We will be placing ads in newspapers soliciting > information that may be helpful to us from anybody who might know > anything and happen to see the ad. These people are not supposed to > know who they are calling (other than my first name), and may be > reluctant to call at all, so the ad urges them to call collect... If people call you collect, then they are giving you their first name, as well as their phone number (which appears on your bill when you accept the collect call). Do you expect people to call without knowing who you are when they know that you know who they are? Dave Levenson Voice: 201 647 0900 Fax: 201 647 6857 Westmark, Inc. Internet: dave@westmark.uu.net Warren, NJ, USA UUCP: {uunet | rutgers | att}!westmark!dave [The Man in the Mooney] AT&T Mail: !westmark!dave