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Re: Anyone have a creative way of dealing with crank calls?

#243
From: David Lesher
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 03:35
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Others said:
# > of throwing a crank caller off is to forward all your calls to a
# > disconnected number at night.  
# 
# Various problems with this:  Not all phone switches (assuming he has
# call forwarding) will allow forwarding to disconnected or non-existent
# numbers.
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# And let's not hear any of the silly nonsense about forwarding to:
.
..


But, on the other hand...

A woman I knew had a squeeze whose mother had a major drinking
problem. If he spent the night, she'd call up in a drunken rage.

Solution? My friend would forward her calls to Dial-a-Prayer. 


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From: wb8foz@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (David Lesher)
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Subject: Re: Anyone have a creative way of dealing with crank calls?
Date: 13 Dec 1992 03:35:13 GMT
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