Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Sun, 19 May 91 03:14 PDT From: John Higdon Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 50k Counts of Wire Fraud Reply-To: John Higdon Message-ID: Organization: Green Hills and Cows 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 377, Message 7 of 9 Lines: 28 "Fred R. Goldstein" writes: > He seems to think that people who receive calls on beepers shoul CALL > THE OPERATOR and ASK THE RATE for every call to a prefix they don't > recognize. Now, what's wrong with that picture? As a pager carrier for over twenty years, I cannot imagine that someone in any profession would put his pager number in the hands of the public at large. Whether he be a plumber, doctor, lawyer, radio engineer, or a salesman, his pager number should be only in the hands of his answering service, voicemail system, office, or other screening entity. If an unfamiliar number shows up, a call to the central point that paged would reveal the information about the call. If that info is not available (in other words, the call did not come through the answering service, etc.), then the call could be ignored as a wrong number. Wrong numbers are very common on direct dial pagers. A pager is not a substitute for an answering machine or service. Anyone who uses it as such and blindly calls every number that appears in the display is likely to ultimately get burned. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !