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By: Fred Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: miami-talk-ml <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On: 31-Mar-00 08:19:22
Re: [Miami] Re: Blacklisted BT number.
Hi Fred,
>>> It is your modem that is blacklisting the number, not Miami. Some
>>> countries require modems to blacklist nubmers after a certain number
>>> of unsuccessful connection attempts.
>> Just curious, do you know the reason behind this requirement? I've
>> never heard of it before. Of course that is probably because I don't
>> live in "Some countries". ;)
> If you'd ever been awakened every 9 minutes by someone's FAX machine
> incessantly retrying attempts to send a FAX to your voice phone, you'd
> appreciate the value of blacklisting. :-)
It's not just that, but various exchanges don't take too kindly to
repetitive dialling of the same number. MODEM manufacturers are also
/supposed/ to program the black listing of certain numbers, so they can
never be dialled (like your emergency services numbers).
I dislike calling new BBS or ISPs except during daylight hours. When I
joined my first ISP, they told me the wrong number, and I was dialling a
banks customer support line. They'd received a number of silent calls,
and were wondering what it was (not all MODEMs send the calling tone
while waiting for another MODEM to answer).
Bye,
Tim. (B.A. T.L.M.N.)
(Who runs a BBS, and has had people ring the house phone instead of the
MODEM, continually, at 4 in the morning till he got out of bed, plugged
in the MODEM to the wrong line, and told them to get stuffed via NComm.
I now tell all callers to ensure that their MODEM speaker is active
until another MODEM takes their call.)
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