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- From: Terry.Parks@launchpad.unc.edu (Terry Parks)
- Subject: Re: Random phone number harassment
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.051744.20649@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 05:17:44 GMT
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- >>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.
-
- Question 1: My phone company has no idea what this is, let alone provide me
- with it, so what gives?
-
- Question 2: How do I give out the PIN to all those people I want to have it?
- The post office, the police department, the hospital?
-
- Question 3: How do I get the PIN back from someone?
-
- Caller-ID would work just fine, if the anti-privacy folks would get
- out of they way so I could get it.
-
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