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In news:7DA352CC-6BA2-499E-8958-E2041901B5D9@microsoft.com,
awake <awake@discussions.microsoft.com> had this to say:
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> Help!
> I get calls on my home phone line from fax machines about 3 nights
> per week - usually between 11:30pm and 4:00 am - so it's really
> annoying. The phone company says it can't do anything to block them,
> or give me the number of the fax machine calling me. Can XP fax
> program recieve these faxes for me so I can figure out who is sending
> them? I have a high-speed cable internet connection, and that's
> about all I know about my computer. Thanks-
Are you certain it's a fax machine? It could be some idiot either war
dialing or just calling the wrong number with their dialup modem. Caller ID
might help you find the number that they're calling from. The advice given
by the other poster isn't wrong but the question really is, if it is someone
dialing in with another PC do you want to give them the chance to connect to
your modem? I'd wait before setting up my modem to answer inbound calls and
get a CID (caller ID for future referrence) box so that you can see who it
is before you make that choice. There used to be devices that you could
connect to your phone line that would give a standardized signal that would
tell the device calling that it wasn't a data line though I don't think I've
seen one of them for years nor would I have any idea where to get one now.
Perhaps your local RadioShack would have the answer for that or a local geek
can build you one as I'm sure the schematics are available.
Galen
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mental exaltation." -- Sherlock Holmes