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- From: rsingh@goliath.Stanford.EDU
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Phone Harrassment
- Message-ID: <telecom12.864.2@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 05:31:12 GMT
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 864, Message 2 of 15
-
- A friend of mine (well, my friend's roomie) is getting life
- threatening phone calls, but the police won't do anything until actual
- harm is done ... they are keeping a log of each call. This is in
- State of Missouri.
-
- The callers DON'T know the dorm or room number or phone number. The
- operator has been asked to NOT TO give the phone number/address to any
- callers.
-
- HOWEVER, this university has a peculiar system that a student can call
- the operator and ask to be connected to "John Doe" and if John Doe is
- a student, the operator WILL put the call through. Thus, even though
- the number is not to be given out, the abuser is able to connect.
-
- So far, the abuser is trying to get the friend and my friend's
- roommate to DIVULGE address/number, but my friend and my friend's
- roommate have been very careful.
-
- My feeling is that something is fishy about an operator connecting to
- people based on a name only, but what do you all think? Especially,
- I'd like to hear from anyone from Missouri that knows about the local
- telephone company policies.
-
-
- Rajesh Kumar Singh E-mail: rsingh@goliath.stanford.edu
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: You are not dealing with 'local telco policies' in
- this case; you are dealing with how the university chooses to operate
- its telephone switchboard. Actually, most people would be pleased with
- the idea of getting calls through to them where the caller only knows
- the name but not the correct number. I can understand your friend's
- anxiety over the calls, but has he considered asking the university
- switchboard to NOT put the calls through? What happens when he just
- hangs up immediatly on hearing the first word from the harasser? The
- fun goes away fast when no one is there to listen and be abused. You
- say 'they' are keeping a log of each call. Who is 'they'; your friend,
- the police, the university operator? Has the university switchboard
- supervisor been tipped off that this problem exists and asked to try
- and derail the caller? PAT]
-