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Its very unlikely they didn't think of that. Not all humans attached to phone numbers reside in the physical area of the area code.

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"WarVOX spent 60 seconds on every call, whether it was answered or not. This resulted in a wardialing speed of 1 call/minute. For 56874 calls, this means roughly 40 days calling day and night."

Seems like he did actually call at night times.

I think given their efforts to avoid calling people at their local night, it's safe to assume "day and night" refers to the caller's local night.

my reading was that OP took efforts not to call people but still rang at all hours. I think your reading and assumption are mistaken.

It's entirely possible.

56784 (calls) / 40 (days) = ~1422, round down to 1400 for 'easy math'

1400 / 24 (hours per day) = ~58 per hour (round up to 60)

60 / 60 (seconds) = 1 per minute so nope, he was hammering at it 24/7 (unless my maths is totally wrong which is always possible).

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