[VoIP] Mystery guest

[Lucky 225]

Curiousity, it is truly the nature of a phone phreak.  You can't tell
me you didn't scan out Wawina when it was still on N carrier :D

On Nov 24, 2007 10:40 AM, Jayson Smith <ratguy at insightbb.com> wrote:
> Yeah, that's just rude. I live such a crazy unpredictable schedule that
> time-based intercept code isn't practical for me. But it can be a godsend
> for the more normal among us. And to think of dialing unpublished numbers! I
> mean, I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings, but give me a break! If it's
> really that interesting, the member will have it published in the directory,
> so why go searching through an entire office code looking for something
> that's probably not there?
> Jayson
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug Alderdice" <ka2wft at arrl.net>
> To: "Voice Over IP Tandem for Analog Switches" <voip at ckts.info>
> Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 10:50 AM
> Subject: Re: [VoIP] Mystery guest
>
>
> > 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.
> >
> >
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