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- From: mayo@pa.dec.com (Bob Mayo)
- Subject: Re: Random phone number harassment
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.040852.26757@PA.dec.com>
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- Organization: DEC Western Research Lab
- References: <phurley.78@tamu.edu> <1992Nov15.131927.12211@bnlux1.bnl.gov> <1992Nov16.031609.27682@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 04:08:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.031609.27682@samba.oit.unc.edu> Terry.Parks@launchpad.unc.edu (Terry Parks) writes:
- >>CallerID won't help much in this scenario since the salesman admitted
- >>that he was sequencially calling all numbers.
- >
- >Could you or anyone tell me how, without using Caller-ID, someone
- >could choose not to listen to such a caller? Only Caller-ID provides
- >this ability, people want this ability (how many million peep-holes
- >are sold each year), and hence people want Caller-ID.
-
- That's an easy one. Just add a PIN to your phone number, and give the PIN
- out only to those people that you want to have it. Your phone will answer
- and play a message like "enter extension number", and if they get it
- correct ring the phone. You can have wrong numbers transfered to an
- answering machine, or just have the machine hang up on them.
-
- This scheme provides more control than caller ID and doesn't require you to
- give out your number when you call businesses.
-
- Heath sells such a machine. Some answering machines do something close.
- More devices are sure to appear over time, as people come to realize the
- privacy implications of caller ID.
-
- > Unfortunately they have a gauntlet of anti-privacy people to deal with.
-
- It's the pro-privacy people that are against the uniform registering of
- personal data with businesses.
-
- --Bob
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