We have recently been called by a automated telephone system located in India, whish is set up to keep a certain number of phone sales people constantly on the phone. The way it works is that the system dials countries (by time zone) constantly 24x7, if the system gets an answer it then looks for an phone sales person who is not working, and queues the call to them. If there is no person ready, it just hangs up, marks the line as live for a later redial and moves to the next number in its list. Bloody irritating. Hugh
From: WAMUG Mailing List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Hastings Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 12:02 PM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: Re : Reverse lookup? Speaking of automatic dialing, it was happening to us at one stage where someone had the wrong number set for their dialup account. We got a lot of phone calls... But, it wasn't malicious or anything On 25/1/05 10:05 AM, "Robert Howells" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 25/01/2005, at 9:50 AM, Jude wrote: > >>>> >>>> I might be wrong, but I have always thought this to be a serious >>>> invasion of privacy >>> >>> A telephone number and address details " advertised " in a PUBLIC >>> document >>> can hardly be classed as PRIVATE ........ >> >> >> And I have to say, I feel a bit as if my privacy should count for >> something here. If I can prove harassment surely I should be given the >> chance to make it go away. > > Privacy is one thing, harassment is a totally different story ........ > YES ! You should be able to make it go away ! > >> >> I can't do the whistle thing because they usually hang up immediately >> when we pick up. Just occasionally they don't, but this is impossible >> to predict. Yesterday it was nine times, but mostly it happens in >> multiples of three. >> >> I don't think its kids because there is no giggling, and it has been >> going on for far too long for the attention span of an average kid. >> >> I rang Optus and they said we have to jump through a bunch of hoops so >> that they can get the process going of getting the nasty letter >> written . > > Yet another " advantage " of competition ! ???? > It never used to take that much to get action while I was at Telstra . > ( But it's 10 years ago !? ) > > From your description I wonder though whether it is a person or some > sort of automatic dialing machine . > We used to get some of those , but in those days it did take a bit of > work to track down the calling number , which was the hardest part. > > I would hit Optus with a fixit or else demand , based on the premise > that it is a network fault , > they will have to prove that it is not, > and then hit the relevant Ombudsman because you are not getting any > action. > > Bob > > > >> I'm just gonna call the cops. >> >> thanks all >> >> Jude >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro >> > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro -- Susan Hastings, Assoc. MAPS Registered Psychologist Suite 20, Level 1 Centre Park 755 Albany Highway East Victoria Park WA 6101 Phone: 9262 0446 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
