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From: leilabd@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Leila Burrell-Davis)
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Subject: Tracing Obscene/Nuisance Calls in the UK
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Date: 12 Sep 90 11:44:56 GMT
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A women's group that I belong to has received a number of complaints
from women about the way in which the police and British Telecom in
the UK handle reports of obscene or 'nuisance' calls - essentially the
charge is that unless you've been having calls threatening physical
violence for an extended period they're just not interested.

We plan to take this up with the authorities, but before we do I would
be very interested to know what it is technically possible for the
phone company to do to trace such calls. I have seen some discussion
in this group as regards the US but don't know to what extent it is
applicable to the UK.


Leila Burrell-Davis, Computing Service, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Tel:   +44 273 678390              Fax:   +44 273 678470
Email: leilabd@syma.sussex.ac.uk  (JANET: leilabd@uk.ac.sussex.syma)


[Moderator's Note: Can any of our readers in the UK explain the laws
there on the topics of telephone harassment and call tracing?   PAT]