Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!ames!killer!vector!telecom-gateway From: csense!bote@uunet.uu.net (John Boteler) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: autodialing without checking first Message-ID: Date: 19 Feb 89 00:55:00 GMT Sender: news@vector.UUCP Lines: 37 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 68, message 5 of 5 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. Rick Farris replies: 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. I posted a number for a VOICE bulletin board I had written for a PC-based voice-telephone interface board. I emphasized several times in several places in the short posting to about 5 local BBS that it was for VOICE, as in Human talk-talk. Roughly 40-50% of the calls were just dead silence, with none of the prompted touch-tone entry. I got wise to what was happening by whistling a modem answer carrier into the BBS line when this occurred. Lo and behold, an originate carrier replied! Due to these and other considerations, I gave up on that project until further notice, but had I wanted to be tricky, I suppose a short burst of 2250 Hz would have alerted the unsuspecting caller to a different operation; those curious enough might actually listen to what the heck was causing their modem to dump prematurely. Just a thought. Bote uunet!cyclops!csense!bote {mimsy,sundc}!{prometheus,hqda-ai}!media!cyclops!csense!bote