"dsi1" > wrote in message
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> On 8/21/2014 2:54 PM, Pico Rico wrote:
>>
>> or you could have given them Mark's new number. Back in the day of junk
>> faxes, some senders used to have an option for you to call and be removed
>> from their list. But they also had an option during that phone menu to
>> add
>> fax numbers. So I started adding a fax number for the state Attorney
>> General, and a fax number for the FCC.
>>
>>
> This was a new service and presumably a new number. Sometimes you get a
> clean number and sometimes you get a dirty one. This one was as dirty as
> they come. I have no idea who Mark was and anyway, if I did, I wouldn't
> pass it out. I'm quite good at withholding info.

Oh yes. I remember many years ago getting a new phone number that had been
someone else's.

Not quite the same but we bought this house 10 years ago and I am still
getting mail from religious groups and charities for the woman who used to
live here.