Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Henry Troup Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Crank Calls Message-ID: <10918@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 14 Aug 90 14:16:53 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: Henry Troup Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ltd. Lines: 27 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 572, Message 5 of 10 In article <10848@accuvax.nwu.edu> yilmazer@suns01.Nowhere (Sedat Yilmazer) writes: >At the cost of the callers privacy! Here in Vienna I got, up to >now, no crank calls. ... Note: NOT about Caller-ID. I wonder if Sedat's blissful crank call-less world is due to the fact that most of Europe -- and I therefore presume Austria -- charges for local calls, making crank calling a much less attractive 'hobby' of the eight-to-ten year olds and drunks that I seem to get? Anyone have any facts or opinions on the relative rates of crank calls. On another track, when I lived in the U.K. we were taught to answer the phone with the number. I presume this dates from a time when the switching system was even less reliable than it is today. But in North America one thing you never do is tell a caller what number s/he has reached. How does the rest of the world answer the phone? Henry Troup - BNR owns but does not share my opinions uunet!bnrgate!hwt%bwdlh490 HWT@BNR.CA 613-765-2337