From: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 13:05:26 -0500
Subject: Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...Since this is verizon, one wonders why this has never been tried on
wrong, non-working phone numbers?Visit your local chevy dealer, no interest for 12 months! We're
sorry, the number you have reached....is it illegal?
Before they could do it, they'd have to file -- and get approved -- a
tariff with the public utilities commission in each state.
I'm not at all sure how well such a proposal would fly there.
How long before they'll just make you sit thru a few seconds of pitch
before connecting any call? Or any website? How hard is it to stick up
a quick bit of flash (e.g.) and then fade to the page you requested?
For a browser -- like, say 'lynx' -- that doesn't even fetch flash links??
<evil grin>