Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 Apollo 5/13/85; site apollo.uucp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!apollo!christensen From: christensen@apollo.uucp (Wendy Christensen) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Phone-line-grabbing junk callers Message-ID: <29f04efc.a51@apollo.uucp> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 14:40:55 EST Article-I.D.: apollo.29f04efc.a51 Posted: Mon Nov 4 14:40:55 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Nov-85 03:37:57 EST Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, Mass. Lines: 11 From (Mark Rosenthal @ Adaptive Optics Assoc., Cambridge, Mass. USA) > These machines are especially obnoxious since they refuse to release your > phone line until they are done with you... This practice is not only obnoxious, but also potentially dangerous. One night, I got such a "junk" call during my Girl Scout meeting. The recorded caller did not relinquish my phone line for over six minutes. (I timed it.) I had nineteen kids in the house. What if I had to call the paramedics or the fire department? Six minutes can be a LONG time in an emergency. w. christensen