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Amputate Your Head · 11-28-2001, 04:14 PM

Here's basically the same ting, but straight from the FTC.

Anyway, my intent is not to go hunting people down who are scamming an 800 line. I'm sure there are many out there. I can point you to a hundred hosts that have statements saying "you MAY NOT host adult sites on our servers", but again, that does not translate to "will not".

My intent was to prove that it is in fact possible to be billed by an 800 number. I never claimed it was legal or not... I'm not the phone company and I'm certainly not a telecommunications lawyer. I have personally been charged for an 800 call in the past. Naturally I called the phone company bitching... and they removed it from my bill, but the point is that you can in fact be charged. Whether or not there is a legal realm for this, I admittedly am now in doubt of. But this is pretty much the end of this journey for me.

Time to move on to talk about goats or even some good ol' newbie bashing or something.... anything!

11-28-2001, 04:14 PM
Amputate Your Head There can be only one Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Somewhere else Posts: 39,075	Here's basically the same ting, but straight from the FTC. Anyway, my intent is not to go hunting people down who are scamming an 800 line. I'm sure there are many out there. I can point you to a hundred hosts that have statements saying "you MAY NOT host adult sites on our servers", but again, that does not translate to "will not". My intent was to prove that it is in fact possible to be billed by an 800 number. I never claimed it was legal or not... I'm not the phone company and I'm certainly not a telecommunications lawyer. I have personally been charged for an 800 call in the past. Naturally I called the phone company bitching... and they removed it from my bill, but the point is that you can in fact be charged. Whether or not there is a legal realm for this, I admittedly am now in doubt of. But this is pretty much the end of this journey for me. Time to move on to talk about goats or even some good ol' newbie bashing or something.... anything!