Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: 26 Apr 91 02:35:44 GMT From: Robert J Woodhead Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Preventing 900 Call Abuse Message-ID: Organization: Foretune Co., Ltd. Tokyo Japan 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 305, Message 3 of 16 Lines: 19 K_MULLHOLAND@unhh.unh.edu (KATH MULLHOLAND) writes: > One mother I know puts a rotary phone with a "dialing block" on it so > that the phone can't be dialed at all. (I'd worry about emergencies.) One hopes said mom's flock doesn't learn how to hook-tap the phone. Said trick is my favorite bit of phone trivia; I estimate that maybe 2% of the population knows it is possible to dial "without dialing." Robert J. Woodhead, Biar Games / AnimEigo, Incs. trebor@foretune.co.jp [Moderator's Note: Certainly hook-tapping will work, but the smaller digits are easier to achieve with accuracy. Tapping out nine, ten and ten more (as in 900) can be tricky unless your finger is agile and quick, and your timing very precise in offices which require it. PAT]