Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: 9 Apr 91 17:10:27 GMT From: Mark Walsh Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Strange Phone Calls Message-ID: Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu 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 279, Message 8 of 12 Lines: 22 From article , by paul@unhtel.unh.edu (Paul S. Sawyer): > sometimes (when things are REAL dull ...) I put them on the speaker, > with the transmitter muted, with varying amusing results ... once > during a party someone called and asked for the "head of the house" > (whatever that is ... B-) so I said "I'll get him", and put the > speakerphone on while we all told anecdotes about companies that use > telemarketing while the speaker kept yelling for attention. Which brings up an interesting question that I have had. Yes, I too find these most annoying. When the automated solicitors prompt you to leave information on their machine, I leave a message consisting of an incoherent diatribe of grotesque words and concepts. (The last one had something to do with sexual activity.) Anyway, I know that obscene phone calls are illegal, but what if you are not the originator of the phone call? Mark Walsh, KC6RKZ