It was a dark and stormy night when Frank Stearns
> wrote:
>> I received an important job-offer vmail that was incomplete -- the
>> caller left a first name and phone number, but the phone number
>> consists of only the area code and prefix. The last four digits are >> missing.
> A reverse search is unlikely to find Mike at Fubar Inc. if all the info
> you have is his first name and a partial phone number. If you know the
> name of the company, you can probably track him down by calling their > switchboard.
> There's something a little odd about this.
Odd in what way? The gentlemen did not leave a last name or a company name (sure wish he had!); the last four digits were cut off from the message. As noted, I did determine with telco help that the prefix I have was not for a PBX or cell.
If it were possible to do what is a *trivial* query in any database where one has partial match and selective field ability, I'd probably have
50-100 returns on such a query, and would be willing to call each one and politely ask if they'd called me.
So, again, isn't there some way to search a telephone DB in this way, or perhaps a site that would permit 9,999 reverse dir queries via a looped script?
Thanks in advance,
Frank Stearns