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- Path: sparky!uunet!psgrain!qiclab!leonard
- From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
- Subject: Re: Random phone number harassment
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.150458.11066@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> <1992Nov15.131927.12211@bnlux1.bnl.gov>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:04:58 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- niebuhr@bnlux1.bnl.gov (david niebuhr) writes:
-
- >The only benefit that CallerID would give you is if the caller didn't
- >block the distribution of his number AND he was calling from a phone
- >whose line transmitted that information AND it didn't cross an areacode
- >boundary.
-
- Actually, areacode boundaries have *nothing* to do with it. You *will*
- get caller-ID info on any call from an properly equipped ecxchange
- as long as the entire route supports SS& (Signalling System 7). It's
- possible to get it on long distance calls *now*.
-
- And since the FCC is *requiring* SS7 on all trunks by early 94 (for
- reasons having nothing to do with Caller ID) that won't be a problem
- soon.
-
- BTW, even if the calling party has blocking on, the info is sent
- to your exchange. So you can *still* do "block calls from last caller"
- or "call last incoming caller". And you get a *different* message
- from blocked numbers than from "not available" numbers.
-
- --
- Leonard Erickson leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com
- CIS: [70465,203] 70465.203@compuserve.com
- FIDO: 1:105/51 Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org
- (The CIS & Fido addresses are preferred)
-