🚀 go-pugleaf

Chad Helfenberger writes
| In article <BzJwtG.4pL@sounds.wa.com> BrianW@SoundS.WA.com writes:
| >Well, it wasn't as simple as "*poof* they're gone" for me!
[I was talking about an Alabama resident pestering me in Washington]
| 
| It may not be as simple as 'poof', but you CAN take legal action with 
| harassing phone callers.  No need for CNID either.

The policeman who showed up at the door regarding my complaint could not take  
any action.

| >...  And the police have  
| >no jurisdiction with out of state callers...
| 
| So you're saying that the person can get away with it legally, right?  
| Wrong.  You can have this person charged.

Sure, I filled out papers for a restraining order to prevent this person from  
trying to contact me in person, but they cannot be served until he crosses the  
state line into Washington.

| >...
| 
| At this point, you should have called the telephone company.

I did call the phone company first.  They sent me to the police, who sent an  
officer to explain how little legal recourse I had against someone currently in  
Alabama.

| >...
| 
| I don't think you can prove a case of harrassment calling with a CNID box.  
| You HAVE to contact the phone company.  CNID is NOT for tracing calls.

You're probably right.  I would have been happy just to program my  
computer/phone/anything to just ignore him instead even bothering with any  
legal action.

Hey, if you know anything which can be done with out-of-state phone harassment,  
please let me know the details.

Actually, I'm far more interested in hearing talk of chip numbers and circuit  
ideas for a quicky peripheral which can be plugged into my NeXT computer's  
serial ports which will disconnect my phone line (or at least prevent ringing)  
under program control (after CNID has been delivered to the computer).
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Brian Willoughby	Software Design Engineer, BSEE NCSU
BrianW@SoundS.WA.com	Sound Consulting and Signal Processing Software
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