Bill wrote:


Also some large companies do not display their number, otherwise the
switch board gets inundated with "someone called me 3 hours ago, no I
don't know who!" OK if they could forward a DDI No, but not sure that
many can.

Well, that's just lazy.

They could assign a presentation number which is answered by an automated
system (like most big companies have anyway) which announces the company
name[1] and offeres a simple menu system for sales etc.

That would offer just enough resistance to persisting which offering a clean
record of the comapny - and a number you could stick in your phone's
directory so it displays the company name next time anyone from the company
rings.


I don't autoblock withheld numbers, but if I'm busy and the phone rings
without displaying the name of someone in my directory - or at least a
number from one of the few area codes that may be of interest, I'll not
bother to pick up.

The truth of how important a call is is whether they leave an answerphone
message...

--
Tim Watts