From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V10 #118 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, April 27 2004 Volume 10 : Number 118 Today's Subjects: ----------------- calling Canada? ["neal copperman" ] another side of spam ["JoAnn Whetsell" ] Re: calling Canada? [Nadyne Mielke ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 21:37:39 -0000 From: "neal copperman" Subject: calling Canada? While we are chatting on off-topic subjects.... Can I make a toll free call to Canada? I have a Canadian toll free number that starts 1-866-......, but when I dial it from phones in the US, I get a "call can't be completed as dialed" message. Do I have to go to Canada to make that call? Or do I have to add some sort of prefix when I dial? Thanks! neal ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 22:49:40 -0400 From: "JoAnn Whetsell" Subject: another side of spam I have a sort of different question related to spam. Besides my hotmail account, I have a small business address with its own domain name. I know that people have been using it to send spam because I receive "return to sender" and "undeliverable" messages from Hotmail for messages no one here has ever sent. The addresses the messages were sent from (and thus returned to) are fake addresses and not legitimately associated with our domain name. I hate to look like a spammer when I'm not, and I hate the idea of people receiving spam from an address that looks like it's associated with our domain when it's really not. Does anyone know how to deal with this? I'd appreciate any ideas. Thanks. JoAnn - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Is your PC infected? Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfee. Security. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 20:35:08 -0700 From: Nadyne Mielke Subject: Re: calling Canada? On Monday, April 26, 2004, at 02:37 PM, neal copperman wrote: > While we are chatting on off-topic subjects.... > Can I make a toll free call to Canada? I have a Canadian toll free > number > that starts 1-866-......, but when I dial it from phones in the US, I > get > a "call can't be completed as dialed" message. Do I have to go to > Canada to > make that call? Or do I have to add some sort of prefix when I dial? Assuming that nothing has been changed since I last worked in telecommunications, there's nothing that you can do. It's checking your phone number based on area code. Since the area code isn't in Canada, it's kicking it back. (For the record, this is how it works for toll-free numbers that are limited to any region, such as toll-free numbers that only work in a given state.) /nm ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V10 #118 ***************************