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dorothy@cvedc.prime.com (Dorothy Robinson) writes:

> I'd begun to suspect that there's a berserk auto-dialer out there
> somewhere because I get these blank calls on my PERSONAL TELEPHONE!

  I do know that whatever it is dialing my system like this does have a
modem because I see it CONNECT 2400/NONE when it calls.  I just recently
changed modems from a Telebit T2500 to a USR HST Dual Standard, and that's
about when this started happening.  I thought it might be a UUCP site
trying to call mine expecting PEP, but TBs aren't supposed to connect at
all if they have S50=255 and don't find PEP on the other end.

  I don't think it's a FAX because that shouldn't connect at all since my
HST/DS can only be modem or FAX, and can't deal with inbound connections
from one when it's in the other mode (no FAX when it's in modem mode as it
is for my BBS and vice versa).

  I finally disabled all inbound non error correcting connections because
this 2400/NONE thing was dropping through to the BBS and just sending a
bunch of space characters that disabled the inactivity timer in my
software.  I'll allow inbound non error correcting connections again as
soon as I find out what or who it is that is calling my system like this
and get it stopped.  Right now, this rouge modem thing doesn't even get a
connect here because my modem rejects it totally.

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