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From: dee@cca.UUCP (Donald Eastlake)
Newsgroups: net.legal,net.religion,net.misc
Subject: Re: Auto-dialing Falwell
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Date: Fri, 17-Jan-86 09:47:27 EST
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Although call to 800- numbers are free to the caller, as far as I know
the usual billing information is collected, including the calling number
and the length of the call.  If it were not, it is hard to see how
people with 800- numbers could be billed since their charges are based
on numbers of hours of use.  In fact, I understand the phone company
sometimes looks for very long calls to 800- numbers (along with calls to
-555- numbers) as a possible sign of blue box activity.  Thus is should
be extrememly trivial for the phone company to immediately pinpoint
anyone repeatedly autodialing to an 800 number from their home.
Harassing phone calls are illegal most everywhere and you could probably
sue someone doing that sort of thing and recover the costs (which should
be precisely calculatable from phone company records) if not more.
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