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RE: Junk Phone Calls WAS: Asterisk progress


  • To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
  • Subject: RE: Junk Phone Calls WAS: Asterisk progress
  • From: "Dean Barrett" <dean@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 10:43:42 +0100
  • Mailing-list: list ukha_d@xxxxxxx; contact ukha_d-owner@xxxxxxx
  • Reply-to: ukha_d@xxxxxxx

You can get BT to setup your number so no 'number withheld' calls will be
received.

We withhold our number at work due to the system picking number randomly
>from
customers we get a BT message telling us that the caller does not accept
calls from number withheld.



Dean.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Grimshaw [mailto:stuart@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 08 May 2003 08:31
To: UKHA List
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Junk Phone Calls WAS: Asterisk progress


On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 08:24, mark_harrison_uk2 wrote:
> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "K. C. Li" <li@l...> wrote:
> > That's a very good point, and a seriously worrying one. I
> > dread to imagine the days when 60% or more of all calls
> > are offers of cheaper mortgages and manhood enlargements.
>
> In the days before the telephone preference service, most of the junk
> calls were for double-glazing or cheaper mortgages.
>

When we moved house, we kept the old number. We get very few phone calls
>from

The 3rd one to call this Sunday got a right earfull. 3 junk calls before
11am on a Sunday ... I ask you!!!

Is there any way to stop them apart from changeing our number?

--
Stuart Grimshaw <stuart@xxxxxxx>

On a child's superman costume: "Wearing of this garment does not
enable you to fly."




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