[VoIP] Mystery guest

[Doug Alderdice]

At 11:08 AM 11/24/2007 +0000, Ian Jolly wrote:
>I wonder if that mystery caller was the one that rang  my 'home number'
>phones at 4AM a couple of days ago  - the "Please don't call after 9pm UK
>time" ones ?
>Time to set up a 'timeswitch' on them?

Ian,

I would whole heartedly suggest time restrictions in your * machine for 
live answer lines.  I just now reviewed my call logs from the last day 
(which I do daily or nearly so) and I see that there was some miscreant 
dialing my system in the wee hours this morning, which included a few of my 
live answer lines, some of which are non-published numbers.  Fortunately I 
have had time tests in my extensions file for quite a while now so any live 
answer attempts were greeted with my intercept.  (You can hear it any time 
at 366-9998.)  I have no problem with folks dialing the 24/7 stuff like the 
various recordings I have or the test tone, etc. (that's why it's there!) 
but to blatantly and repeatedly dial numbers in the range of live answer 
lines -- at any hour, much less the middle of the night -- is rude and 
shows little respect for CNET and those who have put up systems on it.  Not 
knowing the local time is not an excuse in this case as I am in the same 
time zone as the caller, if the CID is to be believed.

As a warning to others, this caller's CID info is recorded as RICHLANDS VA 
<2769712723>, with an IP address of 72.93.205.52, dunno if that's someone's 
PSTN portal.  There's a whole string of attempts to various lines on my 
system at about 0330 local time today (six calls), and again at about 0510 
local (10 calls).

Interestingly enough I had a call yesterday with CID of 9732196829 
"anonymous" from that same IP address, but that caller made one call to one 
of the recordings.

FWIW.

Doug.