Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The easy answer is ditch your landline in favor of a cell-phone. It's > illegal to make unsolicted commercial phone calls to cell-phones in > the US, and telemarketers do respect this.
Well, they sort of respect it. They'll still call, but they'll hang up really quickly when they hear it's a cell phone, and I _think_ they take it off their list... at least, I don't remember many repeats. But I didn't get a substantial decrease of telemarketer calls on my cell phone till I signed up for the NY do-not-call list. > Caller ID works infrequently between area codes. That's not really the problem. Nobody uses Caller ID for this sort of thing... they have ANI (Automatic Number Identification), which is the same information the telcos have for billing. That information _does_ work between area codes and can't be blocked. However, as someone else may have mentioned, that won't necessarily give the correct phone number in the case of a PBX. Many PBXes show the same phone number on ANI for all outgoing calls, which is correct for billing, but wouldn't let you register your incoming phone number. So the query and confirmation is to help stop that kind of problem, or at least let the user know. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. "Tonight's episode: GAS FOOD LODGING...and MURDER!" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
