PAGER SPAM: Here's an interesting email from the TELECOM DIGEST listserve. http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/telecom-archives/ From: baldwin@netcom.com (J.D. Baldwin) Subject: Voice Mail Spam Organization: Revealed on a need-to-know basis. Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 16:11:59 GMT We all get e-mail spam. I'm hardly alone there. I am, however, the only one I know who's received PAGER spam. A few months back, my text pager came alive with several ads purportedly for MEN'S HEALTH magazine. I called the 800-# to raise hell, and got an ad for some sort of sex chat instead. Grrrrrrr. Last night, this was exceeded by Ameritech, which my fellow midwesterners know is The Most Evil Corporation In The History Of The World. My phone service with Ameritech includes phone company hosted voice mail (so I can get messages during busy signals on what is primarily a data line). Last night, when checking my messages, there was a two-minute "bulletin" from Ameritech. I punched in the code to listen to it (I don't think there was a way around it) and was treated to an ad for some sort of "sweepstakes" Ameritech wanted me to enter by calling some 800-#. WHAT THE HELL?!? I plan to call Ameritech to complain, loudly, about this practice, but I thought I'd mention it here to see whether: a) Anyone else has experienced this; b) There is any way to stop this (that I should know about before calling)?   From the catapult of J.D. Baldwin