Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Mon, 20 May 91 20:55:46 PDT From: The unknown Florentine Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 50k Counts of Wire Fraud Message-ID: Organization: Sunshine in a box 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 384, Message 9 of 11 Lines: 35 john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) writes: > 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. Some truth to the above, but not every one works it the same way you do. My office takes the number and they page me with the number our client is at. If one of our other engineers needs to talk to me he pages me dirrect. He could be any where, I could be any where. All of the numbers are likely to be unfamiliar. I don't agree that wrong numbers are common on direct dial pagers. I have one, and I very rarely get wrong number pages, perhaps one out of a hundred. People paging for rather trivial items, are another thing entirely. [Moderator's Note: Years ago I had a pager with the number 444-0100. Talk about wrong numbers! Some days there were a dozen. PAT]