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Rod Speed wrote...

> And you can get calls from operations like the cops or the hospital etc
> that dont show their caller ID. It would be a real problem if she who
> must be obeyed etc ended up in a car crash etc and couldnt call you.

If whoever is calling is "private number" and they bother to leave a message
we'll pick up if they're legit callers. It doesn't happen that much anyway (that
call centres actually leave messages).

What ****s me are those that do call, then place YOU on hold saying that their
operators are all busy....

That's what ended up prompting us to ignore the private callers.

As for emergency services one would hope that if they got the answering machine
that they'd leave a message.

Of course if it's that bad then the police generally come around. It's already
happened once...

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Snapper <[email protected]> wrote
> Rod Speed wrote

>> And you can get calls from operations like the cops or the hospital etc
>> that dont show their caller ID. It would be a real problem if she who
>> must be obeyed etc ended up in a car crash etc and couldnt call you.

> If whoever is calling is "private number" and they bother to leave
> a message we'll pick up if they're legit callers. It doesn't happen
> that much anyway (that call centres actually leave messages).

> What ****s me are those that do call, then place YOU
> on hold saying that their operators are all busy....

> That's what ended up prompting us to ignore the private callers.

> As for emergency services one would hope that if they
> got the answering machine that they'd leave a message.

Dunno, havent tried that myself.

> Of course if it's that bad then the police generally come around.

Sure, but generally you'd prefer the quicker phone call. And the hospital
presumably doenst bother to visit in person if the message doesnt get thru.

> It's already happened once...

I've mostly got phone calls from the cops. Not always tho.

> To top it off we're regularly getting faxes from mobs selling holidays,
> winery
> tours and so on.

Yeah I get that **** on my work fax now.

> I think that I may know the culprit who "onsold" our fax number as it
> isn't
> listed. It's a faxstream duet service with distinctive ring on the home
> phone
> line.

Mine isnt listed either.

"Snapper" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Rod Speed wrote...
>
>> The better faxes can reject fax calls that dont present their caller ID,
>
> That would be a handy feature. I have a Brother MFC, but it's the cheaper
> model,
> bought two years ago. Still, I'll check its settings out, though I don't
> recall
> seeing anything like that.
>
>> or just use the PC to receive faxes, so you dont waste ink on the spam.
>
> Another option but that requires a fax modem and a PC to be running all
> the
> time. which I have neither of.
>
> Probably the easiest option is to see if Telstra will change the faxstream
> number. Of course whoever gets my number in the reallocation process may
> be
> stuck with fax screeching when a call comes in...

6 mth quarantine period applies, and most of the fax spammers will take your
number off the list afterr they get the disconnected message a few times
>

>> Probably the easiest option is to see if Telstra will change the
>> faxstream number.
>
> Yeah, they certainly will. Presumably there is a small charge for that.

not for unwelcome calls

>> It's already happened once...
>
> I've mostly got phone calls from the cops. Not always tho.

Your complaint file is growing, I see
>
>

Michael <[email protected]> wrote:

>>> It's already happened once...

>> I've mostly got phone calls from the cops. Not always tho.

> Your complaint file is growing, I see

Obvious lie, you've clearly wanked yourself blind.

The most recent time they called me was to give me
a reference number for a crime I reported to them.

The time before that, they rang me to tell me that a couple of stupid
kids had been roaming the neighbourhood with a wheelbarrow, quite
literally, one night and loading it from people's cars, to ask me to come
down to the copshop and pickup my stuff they had got from my car.

Michael <[email protected]> wrote
> Rod Speed <[email protected]> wrote
>> Michael <[email protected]> wrote

>>>>> It's already happened once...

>>>> I've mostly got phone calls from the cops. Not always tho.

>>> Your complaint file is growing, I see

>> Obvious lie, you've clearly wanked yourself blind.

>> The most recent time they called me was to give me
>> a reference number for a crime I reported to them.

>> The time before that, they rang me to tell me that a couple of stupid
>> kids had been roaming the neighbourhood with a wheelbarrow, quite
>> literally, one night and loading it from people's cars, to ask me to come down to the copshop and pickup my stuff
>> they had got from my car.

> Why would they steal **** from your car?

Same reason they were stupid enough to 'think' that they
would get away with wheeling a wheelbarrow around the
streets filling it from every car they could get into.

Those two aint exactly what you might call rocket scientist material.

The problem is between their ears, trivially measurably.