Caller ID box with Blocking?

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Jeff Wisnia

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I'm looking for a "Caller ID Box" to put in the phone line going to our
office fax machine, which will not pass incoming calls through to the
machine unless they have a caller ID.

I'm trying to limit the number of "junk faxes" which we receive every
day, and/or be able to determine the sender's phone number on any faxes
which haven't had their caller IDs blocked by the sender.

For various reasons I don't want to use a fax modem program on a computer.

Pointers to Caller ID boxes with the feature(s) I'm looking for will be
much appreciated.

Thanks guys,
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Jeff Wisnia (W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)

"My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying."
 
Jeff Wisnia wrote:
I'm looking for a "Caller ID Box" to put in the phone line going to our
office fax machine, which will not pass incoming calls through to the
machine unless they have a caller ID.

I'm trying to limit the number of "junk faxes" which we receive every
day, and/or be able to determine the sender's phone number on any faxes
which haven't had their caller IDs blocked by the sender.

For various reasons I don't want to use a fax modem program on a computer.

Pointers to Caller ID boxes with the feature(s) I'm looking for will be
much appreciated.

Thanks guys,
--
Jeff Wisnia (W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)

"My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying."
Be advised that there is a Federal law against junk faxed; take the
bastards to Federal District Court (if i remember correctly).
 
"Jeff Wisnia" <jwisnia@conversent.net> wrote in message
news:108ap2hpavi0f4b@corp.supernews.com...
I'm looking for a "Caller ID Box" to put in the phone line going to our
office fax machine, which will not pass incoming calls through to the
machine unless they have a caller ID.

I'm trying to limit the number of "junk faxes" which we receive every
day, and/or be able to determine the sender's phone number on any faxes
which haven't had their caller IDs blocked by the sender.

For various reasons I don't want to use a fax modem program on a computer.

Pointers to Caller ID boxes with the feature(s) I'm looking for will be
much appreciated.

Thanks guys,
--
Jeff Wisnia (W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)
Interesting idea... but...

Quite a lot of non junkmail companies may not beable to send faxes either.
For instance, any phone call going out of our companies phone system does
not pass on the caller id. It's just something that these lines do.

Note: that the Caller ID printed by the fax unit is not the line caller id.
It is a separately "stored on the fax unit" id.

Good idea though.

Mark
M1MPW
 
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 13:58:08 -0400, Jeff Wisnia
<jwisnia@conversent.net> wrote:

I'm looking for a "Caller ID Box" to put in the phone line going to our
office fax machine, which will not pass incoming calls through to the
machine unless they have a caller ID.

I'm trying to limit the number of "junk faxes" which we receive every
day, and/or be able to determine the sender's phone number on any faxes
which haven't had their caller IDs blocked by the sender.

For various reasons I don't want to use a fax modem program on a computer.

Pointers to Caller ID boxes with the feature(s) I'm looking for will be
much appreciated.

Thanks guys,
Contact your local phone service. They should be able to give you the
code you inut through your phone touchpad to block callers with caller
id blocking.(I think it used to be something like *70 in my area.)
 
"gothika" <Vampyres@nettaxi.com> wrote in message
news:953p90d9aas2tcjirql6fr33h7f3a23dqq@4ax.com...
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 13:58:08 -0400, Jeff Wisnia
jwisnia@conversent.net> wrote:

I'm looking for a "Caller ID Box" to put in the phone line going to
our
office fax machine, which will not pass incoming calls through to the
machine unless they have a caller ID.

I'm trying to limit the number of "junk faxes" which we receive every
day, and/or be able to determine the sender's phone number on any
faxes
which haven't had their caller IDs blocked by the sender.

For various reasons I don't want to use a fax modem program on a
computer.

Pointers to Caller ID boxes with the feature(s) I'm looking for will
be
much appreciated.

Thanks guys,

Contact your local phone service. They should be able to give you the
code you inut through your phone touchpad to block callers with caller
id blocking.(I think it used to be something like *70 in my area.)
That's only a partial solution, according to what he asked for.

I've had very good success with our two fax machines at work by calling
the toll free number at the bottom and removing our numbers from their
lists. We get only a couple faxes a month now. Other machines get a
couple a day.

This does not make it right, by any means, in the U.S. it's illegal to
send junk faxes. I have filled out complaints online with the FCC
website on occasion. You won't get any help from the FCC by doing this,
but the FCC will add your complaint to the list they use when they
calculate the fines they will charge to the parasite company in their
'NAL'. They fined Fax.com at $11,000 per complaint, and at almost 500
complaints that came to about $5.4 million.

Try comp.dcom.telecom.tech or alt.dcom.telecom for more info.


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