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Volume 28 : Issue 99 : "text" Format
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Re: Help? Getting audio out of a AT&T E5862BC cordless telephone answering machine.
Re: Help? Getting audio out of a AT&T E5862BC cordless telephone answering machine.
Demise of on-line telephone directory databases
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Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:30:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Kaye <sfdavidkaye2@yahoo.com>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Help? Getting audio out of a AT&T E5862BC cordless telephone answering machine.
Message-ID: <66cf9236-f70a-41b7-8be6-9db80973a6aa@k38g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>
I found the manual online. To quote:
"At the handset, voice messages are played through the
speakerphone. If you prefer to listen privately, you can
press SPEAKER to switch to earpiece playback."
So, apparently the ear jack only works when you press the speaker
switch.
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Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:31:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Kaye <sfdavidkaye2@yahoo.com>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Help? Getting audio out of a AT&T E5862BC cordless telephone answering machine.
Message-ID: <79247eed-f701-4667-9ee4-98c8b46ec357@w9g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>
Oh, and here's a link to the manual:
http://telephones.att.com/docMgt/public/art/20497/e5862_manual.pdf
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Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:53:39 +0000 (UTC)
From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Demise of on-line telephone directory databases
Message-ID: <grn1ej$jhb$1@news.albasani.net>
One thing the Internet does well is provide access to databases.
For the last 10 years or so, it was possible to get white pages listings
from incumbent local telephone companies on line. anywho.com, for
instance, started out as a database for Ameritech states. GTE had one,
as did each of the baby bells. With consolidation, these databases got
bigger.
In the ILEC's service territory, the listings came from their own
databases. Now, they might have been the listings as they existed at the
time the latest telephone directory closed, but this was decent
information, less likely to be out of date. Typically, the database
would not have disconnected numbers, even if new movers were missing.
One by one, these databases vanished from the Internet. Generally, Intelius
either purchased the domain names but left the front end in place or the
domain is still owned by the phone company but supplying Intelius data.
Intelius is a data consolidator, purchasing any database it finds. The
information is consolidated with fuzzy matches, so it's hardly unusual
that information from multiple people is linked with something in common
in the matching criteria. Generally, the results are somewhat useless.
Recently I found a phone number briefly assigned to a relative at a
location she never ended up moving in to. The phone line wasn't supposed
to have been activated (it never terminated at the location) but it was
for a short time. At Intelius, it's listed in her name at another
address she has no association with. I'm sure the phone number had been
assigned to someone at that address either before or after she had it.
Intelius makes its money from paid information searches, so the fuzziest
possible matching is their business model. I can't imagine that their
paid searches provide better accuracy. In fact I'd imagine it's probably
much worse, with more hits on additional databases. I've never used it.
lycos's whowhere.com is a front end to ussearch.com, an Intelius
competitor.
The only remaining non-Intelius database is whitepages.com. Most of
their information is from databases prepared from printed telephone
directories input by third parties, so it's out of date at about the
same rate as a telephone directory not published by the local telephone
company. Some white pages searches provided by the big phone companies,
like Verizon, are actually front ends for a search through their
database.
Might as well resume using printed telephone directories. The number of
published listings is way down, as the ILEC doesn't carry all telephone
numbers from CLEC's, but at least what you find stands a better chance
of being accurate.
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