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Article #243Re: Anyone have a creative way of dealing with crank calls?
From: David Lesher
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 03:35
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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!wupost!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!skybridge!wb8foz From: wb8foz@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (David Lesher) Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Anyone have a creative way of dealing with crank calls? Date: 13 Dec 1992 03:35:13 GMT Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews abusers - Beltway Annex Lines: 26 Message-ID: <1geb1hINN2im@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> References: <ByvBnu.86v@acsu.buffalo.edu> <92342.170758JDG111@psuvm.psu.edu> <1992Dec10.063120.24366@eecs.nwu.edu> Reply-To: wb8foz@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu (David Lesher) NNTP-Posting-Host: skybridge.scl.cwru.edu