[Asterisk-Users] OMG THE SKY IS FALLING!! NOT!!!

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My answering box give a terse, "After the message, leave your beep" 
(dyslexic answering machine)
Its just short enough to trigger the dinger for the telemarketing-trash so 
they waste their time going, Hello? Hello? Some dont even wait, they just 
jump into their speil, the object is to waste as much of their time as 
possible. Ive yet to find a way to electrocute them from remote, but I'd 
like that feature...

At 20:00 5/14/2004, you wrote:
>Had a fight with Ameritech in the late 90's.  I heard conversations on
>my fax-line that did not belong to me (didn't have they psychiatrist
>check, but I was pretty sure).  They claimed it was another unit in the
>house, I told them the only other people living there were the
>landlords, and they're out of town.  Cordless?  Nope.  This went on for
>two weeks until I went to RadioShack, bought a phone-adapter and started
>recording the conversations.  A teenage girl discussing where to get
>what drugs with her boyfriend, a middle-aged woman talking to someone
>about how to scam the wellfare office, and finally -- that same woman
>SCAMMING the welfare office and giving her SSN, name and address over
>the phone.  Took 2 hours between finding that tidbit and Ameritech
>telling me they found a "crossed line" two blocks down.  Since then, I
>will not reveal personal information over the phone (and my answering
>machine messages never give the name or number they called -- if the
>caller doesn't know who they want, they shouldn't be calling)