Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Roy Smith Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Persistent Wrong Number Bozos, Unlisted Numbers, Collect Calls Message-ID: <5364@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 19 Mar 90 15:25:19 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: Public Health Research Institute, New York City Lines: 31 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 185, Message 2 of 9 > If people call you collect, then they are giving you their first name, > as well as their phone number [...] Do you expect people to call without > knowing who you are when they know that you know who they are? Strange as it sounds, yes I do. I appreciate the various notes I've gotten on this subject and I might as well respond en masse to them. To the suggestion that I just put in an 800 number, we thought of that already. According to our lawyer, 800 numbers look corporate and the sorts of people we are looking for might be scared off by that. Also, an 800 number that forwards to our regular line means they get a busy signal if I'm on the phone. This phone line will be dedicated to nothing but waiting for those rare but important calls. And, unfortunately, I must respectfully decline to answer queries asking the specifics of what's going on here, other than to assure you that (no matter how bizarre it all sounds) it's really reasonably straight forward. Most of the running around in circles is to satisfy the paranoia of our lawyer. I hesitated bring this up in the first place since I knew I would have to remain mysterious about the background, but I though the telecomm issues, even in isolation, might be interesting. Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy "My karma ran over my dogma"