You could do that. But there is a service that you can use that will not allow a "blocked id" or an "unknown caller" call ring through on your phone. I used it for a while on my home phone and we also had it set up to avoid the spammers sending us spam faxes at the office. You know those wonderful cruise ship package deals. Until we blocked those kinds of call on our fax line we could get to work on monday and find anywhere from ten to fifty spam faxes in our received tray.
Weirdest repeat service call was on a fax machine that could fax locally and long distance but not to certain insurance companies the doctor's office needed to fax patient billing forms to. Seems the network specialist the doctor hired had set them up with a computer phone service and "saved them" a lot of money on long distance phone calls. The "fax" line was on a outgoing roll over line as part of the programmed phone software. I called my cell phone using their fax and it popped up as a "caller ID blocked" so my cell would not let it ring more than once and actually hung up on the call. I called one of the companies that the customer was having a problem sending to and they confirmed that they had caller id blocked numbers automatically hung up on by their phone system. That customer actually had us rewrite our service agreement to include" Fax machine must be installed on a dedicated telephone line"
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