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From: Carl Moore (VLD/VMB) <cmoore@brl.mil>
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Subject: Re: Crank Calls
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Date: 16 Aug 90 17:08:16 GMT
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Henry Troup <bnrgate!bwdlh490.bnr.ca!hwt@uunet.uu.net> writes that in
UK he was taught to answer the phone with the number, but that in
North America this is not done.

If there is a problem with a wrong number, you might ask the caller
what number he/she is trying to reach.  Also, I have had at least one
or two cases where I reached an answering machine which announced the
number I had reached (in lieu of giving out a person's name?).