Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!killer!vector!telecom-gateway From: rfarris@serene.UUCP (Rick Farris) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: autodialing without checking first Message-ID: Date: 10 Feb 89 19:52:51 GMT Sender: news@vector.UUCP Lines: 19 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 57, message 6 of 7 In article buita!dattier@jolnet.orpk.il.us (David Tamkin) writes: > When I was active in a user group I posted my phone number as contact > number for the group on three or four BBS's. Modems screamed in my > ear for months afterward. > It is amazing how many half-wits assume (1) that any number they read > on a BBS is a BBS and (2) that there is no reason to dial with their > fingers and listen with their ears the first time they try it. How strange. Not only did the callers dial your number, but they modified their modems so that instead of the calling modem *listening* for carrier, like all normal modems, it actually called you and went into answer mode. Now either this story is apocryphal, or the people calling your number were not bumpkins, but were intentionally harassing you. Rick Farris RF Engineering POB M Del Mar, CA 92014 voice (619) 259-6793 rfarris@serene.cts.com ...!uunet!serene!rfarris serene.UUCP 259-7757