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- From: williamt@athena.Eng.Sun.COM (Dances with Drums)
- Newsgroups: alt.privacy
- Subject: Re: Random phone number harassment
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 20:41:10 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
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- References: <phurley.78@tamu.edu> <1992Nov15.005732.1484@samba.oit.unc.edu> <BxqJHo.6np@cs.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov19.144956.10641@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
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- In article <1992Nov19.144956.10641@qiclab.scn.rain.com> Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org writes:
- >kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie) writes:
- >>Terry.Parks@launchpad.unc.edu (Terry Parks) writes:
- >>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.
- ----
- Depends on what type of blocking you are talking about. From the
- new I read, the only way the state PUC would allow the telco to
- implement caller id was if a user could by *default* block out the
- transmission of his number *always*. The telco company wanted to
- force users to type-in a special code before each and every call to
- do this type of blocking on the assumption that most users would be
- too lazy to type in the code each time.
-
- Since the PUC put this requirement on the telco's proposal, the
- telco has declined to offer caller-id at this time claiming that the
- ability for users to block the transmission of their number by
- a 1 time blocking procedure, would make the system useless.
-
-
- -wat-
- --
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