It's an automated device that answers the phone for numbers that have caller-ID blocked, and attempts to carry on a conversation, wasting the phone-spammer's time as much as he was about to waste yours. http://www.pagerealm.com/tc2k/ if nothing else, listen to the recorded conversations (for some reason, they're mp3's renamed to .wav files, then .zip'ed). Hilarious! Carl. -- "Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list