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- From: mbrown@testsys.austin.ibm.com (Mark Brown)
- Newsgroups: austin.general
- Subject: Re: PUC: Caller ID illegal
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.195940.29525@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 19:59:40 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.202757.19402@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> <1992Nov17.155715.26466@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> <1992Nov17.171059.27533@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
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- > dewey@vpdbox.austin.ibm.com writes:
- >>, mbrown@testsys.austin.ibm.com (Mark Brown) writes:
- >|> The privacy issue is a smokescreen for the real reason Bell wants Caller
- >|> ID:
- >|>
- >.. corporate databases
- >|> ...and *we'd* pay for the privilege! Think how many times you'd use CID
- >|> to 'screen' calls, or how many numbers you'd remember at a glance,
- >|> compared to the utility that, say, First Bank would receive...
- >
- > You don't have to remember Phone Numbers, the little Caller ID
- > boxes allow you to input names associated with the number OR
-
- The ones I've seen don't come with a keyboard, or a PC. Just a little
- LCD display.
-
- > plug it into you PeeCee and when the phone rings, you get all
- > the same info on them(assuming they've called before and you
- > logged the info into YOUR database).
-
- All of this for the same utility you get now from the answering machine.
-
- *IFF*:
- we get Per Line (turn off the line all the time) Blocking
- (so I don't have to hit "*7Foo" every time I call)
- -and-
- we get Per Call Blocking
- -and-
- we don't have to pay to Block
-
- *then* Caller ID will be a Good Thing for the "rest of us".
-
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