Dear Heloise: My phone number must be close to one or more fax numbers. If a person attempting to send a fax is unsuccessful for three attempts, he or she should redial the number. Several times a month, my phone rings and I hear a fax transmission. Then, no matter what I do, every six to eight minutes the auto-dial attempts to resend the fax to my phone. Often this continues for close to an hour. If I let the answering machine pick up, the messages fill with whirrs and beeps.

Also, if you reach a wrong number, please be courteous enough to say, “Sorry, wrong number.” My phone numb...

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