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From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon)
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Subject: Re: Wrong Numbers With Nobody Talking
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Date: 23 Sep 89 04:35:16 GMT
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In article , well!slf@lll-crg.llnl.
gov (Sharon Lynne Fisher) writes:
> I don't get any message either; just those faint sounds.  I thought perhaps
> it was people calling me from a computer, but then I'd hear a modem tone,
> wouldn't I?  Incidentally, I get these calls both long-distance and local.
> Anybody have any idea what's going on?

How do you know that they're long distance or local? Anyway, it could
be a modem calling you (like a wrong number in someone's Systems file!)
and you would hear nothing when you answered. Remember, an originating
modem needs to hear the answering modem's tone before it will speak. If
you have a modem, you might let it answer your phone for awhile and see
if something connects with it:-)

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