And the telecommunications manager is with whom?

The answer, as any telecommunications manager can tell you, is that voice-mail systems are only as secure as the people who use them decide they should be.

That prompted voice-mail manufacturers and telecommunications managers to strengthen security.

"I'm the black sheep of the house-concert community," Mr. Rosen, a telecommunications manager and father of four, said in a telephone interview.

Originally founded in 1972 by telecommunications managers or directors, the association has grown with the evolution of technology to include not just voice professionals but data and video as well.

Of 400 telecommunications managers polled earlier this year, 62 percent said they had no policies to try to curb fax costs.

Many corporate telecommunications managers had already been developing ways to survive an A.T.& T. network failure.

A newspaper article from the latter campaign lists him as a forty-nine-year-old telecommunications manager.

Mr. Mehta, who was a telecommunications manager earning $74,500, said he has sent out more than 2,000 resumes over the last year.

Linda Paris, the paper's telecommunications manager, said most of the illegal calls had been placed from apartment buildings and pay telephones in New York City.