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- From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
- Subject: Re: Random phone number harassment
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.144956.10641@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Reply-To: Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org
- Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.
- References: <phurley.78@tamu.edu> <1992Nov15.005732.1484@samba.oit.unc.edu> <BxqJHo.6np@cs.uiuc.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:49:56 GMT
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- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie) writes:
-
- >Terry.Parks@launchpad.unc.edu (Terry Parks) writes:
-
- >[...]
- >>Sure, when are the anti-privacy folks going to let me purchase Caller-ID.
- >[...]
-
- >When the phone company offers it with block-blocking, the ability for
- >callers to stop their numbers from being transmitted and the ability
- >of callees to refuse calls without transmitted numbers.
-
- >The phone company apparently doesn't want to offer this because it
- >would make it harder for Radio Shack (for example) to quietly collect
- >phone numbers.
-
- You might want to check your facts. Acoording to all the discussions
- over on comp.dcom.telecom, the ability to block blocked numbers is a
- *standard* part of the "call blocking" feature.
-
- --
- Leonard Erickson leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com
- CIS: [70465,203] 70465.203@compuserve.com
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