Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken!telecom-request From: JKOSS00@ricevm1.rice.edu (Jordan Kossack) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Threatening Phone Calls in Canada Message-ID: Date: 24 Mar 91 12:38:05 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 44 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 237, Message 7 of 10 In article , ndallen@contact.uucp (Nigel Allen) writes: > U.S. readers may encounter similar obstructionism from the police if > they receive harassing calls. In that case, they may want to consult > their state justice department or local legal clinic about what their > options are, including swearing out a complaint or filing charges > themselves. If these harrasing telephone calls are considered so unimportant by telco and the police, perhaps one should forward the calls to them since they don't thinkc it is a problem. No - scratch that, although it might be emotionally satisfying to do such, the police dispatchers don't make the policy and shouldn't suffer as a result. Now, if you could only forward such calls to a 900 number and have the harassing caller pay for it ... at $50 a call, they'll stop soon. :-0 Of course this assumes that such calls are arriving at a time of day such that you are unlikely to receive ligitimate calls - like 4am or some such. Too, you need Call Forwarding. On the other hand, if the calls get bad enough, perhaps they SHOULD be forwarded to whatever official(s) are responsible for Caller-ID not being available in your area. Either that or (if your employer and friends have a sense of humor) change your answering machine to something like "FBI, please hold." followed by appropriate 'music on hold.' As a side note, what happens if you forward your calls to yourself? Will the callers get a busy signal? What if you do/don't have Call Waiting? Just curious ... but not curious enough to order these things just to find out. Thanks. jkoss00@ricevm1.rice.edu | Jordan Kossack | n5qvi | +1 713 799 2950 [Moderator's Note: Previously here in Chicago, if you forwarded a call to yourself, the call was forwarded to you. Of course you had to dial twice to establish call forwarding, since the first time you dialed the line was busy ... :) Then we got new generics which if you forwarded to yourself (you still could do so) subsequent callers got a busy signal forever until you cancelled it. Now the latest software forbids the entry. Trying it, I get a re-order (fast busy) tone and it was not accepted no matter how many times I re-dialed it. PAT]