Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!ames!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: munnari!stcns3.stc.oz.au!dave@uunet.uu.net (Dave Horsfall) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 976 WAKE - up Service in California Message-ID: Date: 19 Apr 89 03:50:50 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Dave Horsfall Organization: Alcatel STC Australia, North Sydney, AUSTRALIA Lines: 22 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 139, message 5 of 7 In article , telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) writes: | | You don't have to be a hotel guest to get a wake-up call anymore. | People in California can now dial a service called '976-WAKE' and arrange | a telephonic alarm clock/reminder service for the next day. I don't know about the rest of the world, but Australia has had this service for years. However, it is a manual service (you speak to a Real Person), and I presume the cited service is automatic. This has its advantages, since you are called back within a minute or so, to confirm it (you have to say what number the call is to go to), and this obviously reduces the potential for abuse. Of course, this is easily circumvented by methods I need not go into. Does the California system perform any such checks? Or does it immediately know the number you are calling from? Suppose you really want the call to go elsewhere? Is this comp.risks material? -- Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU), Alcatel STC Australia, dave@stcns3.stc.oz dave%stcns3.stc.oz.AU@uunet.UU.NET, ...munnari!stcns3.stc.oz.AU!dave