[plug] [OT| growing VOIP -> POTS spam problem

[Chris Caston]

On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 12:57, Shayne O'Neill wrote:
> > If you should be abusing the "living daylight" out of anyone it should
> > be the people that run the cold-calling sweat shop instead of giving
> > these people real jobs.
> 
> I concur. However, I must confess having recently been woken up at about
> 2am by *PRERECORDED* off-shore phone advertisement with a return number
> that was one
> of those 50c per minute timed call things I found myself *deeply* wishing
> I HAD someone to abuse.
> 

Yes the most annoying thing about those is that just hanging up doesn't
get rid of them. The call does not end until the other end hangs up so
in the meantime you can't use your line.

This is a really bad DoS attack against someones (or a businesses) phone
line.

regards,

Chris