And lo on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:22:00 -0000, Sabrina Kilian <"ykgp at  
vtSPAM.edu"> did spake, saying:

> Phil Cook wrote:
>> And lo on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:24:42 -0000, Sabrina Kilian <"ykgp at
>> vtSPAM.edu"> did spake, saying:
>>
>>> My old phone number ended in 0001. It was fine, till one of the other
>>> phone companies used it for unknown numbers.
>>
>> Wow we just get "You were called today at [time/date]. The caller
>> withheld their number" Likewise any caller id hardware just displays
>> "UNKNOWN" or "WITHHELD".
>>
> I thought about putting a message like that on my voice mail, so they
> would know it wasn't really me. But it all happened after I had been out
> of town for a week, so I called the phone company to make sure that no
> one had been in my apartment. And to make sure that there were no
> glitches in the phone lines, a short somewhere that just happened to
> make the right tones to dial these numbers. They changed the number
> while they were looking in to the problem.

I'm just surprised that they use a number at all; obviously cheap  
programmers with a "you were called by [insert phone number]" script that  
only accepts a valid number.

> My suspicion is the Big Phone Company in the area doesn't like the
> little local place that handles my phone, and doesn't like sharing their
> copper wires with them. Putting one of their numbers as the 'unknown'
> might have just been a bit of local politics.

Ah tell me about it my company has just switched from Big Phone Company to  
Little Phone Company and we've lost the ability to determine last caller  
or caller id. LPC were quite surprised about this as all services should  
be moved over as standard; so they called up BPC who told them they  
couldn't transfer these services due to the type of line we have coming  
in. So BPC can do it when we're with them, but can't do it when we're not.  
Ah nothing like ensuring a level playing field when denationalising a  
monopoly company :-)

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Phil Cook

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