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A program that runs, loads into memory, and stays out of view until you call on it. TSRs were commonly used in DOS, and are not necessary in modern operating systems.
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Terminate and Stay Resident - Two thoughts here:1. The DNC list works well for me. I usually don't see more than onetelemarketer every month or so. See https://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx2. If the telco's were interested in enforcing the DNC, they'd add anew CLASS service like malicious call trace that captures the callerID _and_ ANI. Typing the *xx code could report these numbers to theFTC, with the time and your phone number so your complaint can be moreeasily traced. That is, if the phone companies really wanted to helpenforce the anti-telemarketer regs.On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 11:19:41 -0500, Michael Quinn wrote: A few weeks back in the long thread on spoofed caller ID, someone mentioned a recently enacted federal law that requires telemarketers to deliver a caller ID number (whether accurate or not). Here in Nothern VA, we have been using Verizon's Anonymous Call Reject, which does not allow "out of area" numbers to even ring the phone unless the caller provides some additional information (or enters a PIN); we pay $7.50 per month or so for this. I think it was about this time that I started to notice a significant increase in telemarketing calls which now display the number and the name, although sometimes the name says "out of area" or "not available" (or even "ohio"), which of course ACR doesn't look at -- as long as they deliver a number, however inaccurate, ACR lets the call through. The net result is that our dinner and evening hours are now once again filled with ringing phones. Before this, there was a fair chance that an incoming call was from someone we wanted to hear from, so we'd pick up after looking at caller ID; now we have to deal with at least double or triple the number of calls. Has anyone else noticed this phenomenom? I guess for the small number of folks with ACR it's a step backward, even though it may be an improvement for the majority. I'm wondering what will happen if I cancel ACR -- even more calls I suppose. Regards, Mike Quinn Springfield VA [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: That was a very big hassle I had with SBC (Southwestern Bell Tel) when they had my phone service. They claimed (the chairman's office, yet, when I appealed) that they had met all requirements to subscribers of anonymous call blocking and last call reject 'as long as the calling party supplies some number.' No matter if it was all zeros, if the name was bogus or missing, etc. SBC still wanted the couple bucks per month for providing 'anonymous call rejection'. They claimed 'the call was not anonymous, we did give you the number and often times the name.' Yet, even though the call was not 'anonymous' by telco's definition, they still were not able to block future calls from the same 'number'. I think what you will find, Michael, is that telco makes too much money from telemarketers to abuse them too badly. Telco turns a blind eye to the way they rig their phone systems (with skimpy or non- existent details of ID) because the telemarketers would suffer from it. PAT][TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: There *is* a CLASS service such as youdescribe. *57 does that job; dial *57 during a conversation (flash thehook, fresh dialtone, *57, then flash again to go back to theconversation) or immediatly following disconnection, and telco recordsthe details regardless of any privacy flags (*67, etc) being set andforwards the details to police. **They will NOT tell you the details.You have to get the details from the police.** Police will generallyonly give you details if you agree _in writing first_ to prosecute onthe results. Telco will not serve as your private detective agency,etc. Communication privacy laws prohibit telco from working with youdirectly. Getting the police to actually do something about the matteris a different thing. Many police believe it is a civil matter, andthey are not permitted to get involved in civil matters. Police alsousually 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
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