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Acronym for Message Application Programming Interface. A standard Windows interface for messaging that enables different mail programs and other mail-aware applications like word processors and spreadsheets to exchange messages and attachments with each other.
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MAPI - On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 15:42:21 -0500, wrote: Two thoughts here: 1. The DNC list works well for me. I usually don't see more than one telemarketer every month or so. See https://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx 2. If the telco's were interested in enforcing the DNC, they'd add a new CLASS service like malicious call trace that captures the caller ID _and_ ANI. Typing the *xx code could report these numbers to the FTC, with the time and your phone number so your complaint can be more easily traced. That is, if the phone companies really wanted to help enforce the anti-telemarketer regs. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: There *is* a CLASS service such as you describe. *57 does that job; dial *57 during a conversation (flash the hook, fresh dialtone, *57, then flash again to go back to the conversation) or immediatly following disconnection, and telco records the details regardless of any privacy flags (*67, etc) being set and forwards the details to police. **They will NOT tell you the details. You have to get the details from the police.** Police will generally only give you details if you agree _in writing first_ to prosecute on the results. Telco will not serve as your private detective agency, etc. Communication privacy laws prohibit telco from working with you directly. Getting the police to actually do something about the matter is a different thing. Many police believe it is a civil matter, and they are not permitted to get involved in civil matters. Police also usually have a busy schedule and phone harassment is not a big issue, especially when there is a telemarketer causing you some minor grief. Oh, and *57 is not an inexpensive CLASS service. Typically, telco gets eight to ten dollars for *each instance* of its use. The recorded message they play immediatly following the capture of the details tells you about this charge, and provides an 800 number at the 'call annoyance bureau' to be used to follow up with telco and police. PAT]I had thought that *57 cost one dollar a use, but found you are right,a couple of SBCs tariffs that charge $7 and $8 per successful use. Ithought a buck was too much, and the headache of getting the local LEAinvolved was not worth the effort, even if they did anything. That'swhy I think we need a similar service that sends the data to theFTC/FCCs enforcement division (to get around the privacy aspects).If its cheap (i.e. free) and easy to send the data, people will do it.The FTC/FCC do not call list website seems to have been done bysomeone with at least a clue as to what they are doing, so I bet theycould set up a system to automatically record all the data that wassent in, and sort it by number of calls from each ANI and each CID, sothey could address the most prolific violators first.Also, you need both ANI and CID. I don't know if *57 gives both. Youneed ANI because CID can be faked; you need CID because a company mayuse many telemarketers, each with their own line (and ANI).
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