How effective is Pacbell's Anonymous Call Rejection (ridding telemarketers)

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2 total messages Started by usenet201 Tue, 24 Jul 2001 01:54

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Author: usenet201
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 01:54

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I live in the San Francisco Bay area of California. Pacific Bell offers a
service named Anonymous Call Rejection, which is supposed to limit
telemarketer annoyances. Can someone in California who has subscribed to this
feature, tell me if it is effective or not?
Thanks



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Re: How effective is Pacbell's Anonymous Call Rejection (ridding telemarketers)

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Author: William Pietri
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 09:39

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usenet201@hotmail.com wrote:

> I live in the San Francisco Bay area of California. Pacific Bell offers a
> service named Anonymous Call Rejection, which is supposed to limit
> telemarketer annoyances. Can someone in California who has subscribed to
> this feature, tell me if it is effective or not?

I have tried both Anonymous Call Rejection and their newer Privacy Manager 
service.

The problem with ACR is that many telemarketers don't turn up as anonymous 
calls; instead the Caller ID information is just unavailable. So they get 
through. With Privacy Manager, the requirement is more stringent; anybody 
who doesn't have valid Caller ID data is routed to a voice menu system 
before my phone even rings.

Now that I have Privacy Manager, I certainly get fewer telemarketing calls. 
The drawback is that some normal people call from areas where Caller ID 
doesn't work and have to go through the menus to get to you. Overall, I'm 
pleased with Privacy Manager, and prefer it to ACR.

William

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