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- From: nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu
- Subject: Re: Caller ID block?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.163742.1@acad3.alaska.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 00:37:42 GMT
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- In article <28487@oasys.dt.navy.mil>, curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch) writes:
- > In alt.cyberpunk, mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington) writes:
- >>On receiving a call with caller ID blocked, one thing you could do is pick
- >>up the receiver and say, "If you want to talk to me, call back without
- >>blocking caller ID," and hang up.
- >>
- >>But could you distinguish (a) a caller who has deliberately blocked
- >>caller ID, from (b) a caller from a place that simply doesn't have it yet?
- >
- > The phone system tells you. If you have caller ID service, then you
- > get Caller-ID info on every call. It includes the date and time
- > of the call as well as the phone number. If the call comes from an
- > area that doens't supply the number, then you get an "out of area"
- > message (along with the date and time). If the caller-id info is blocked
- > you get a message something like "private" (along with the date and
- > time).
- >
- > My caller-id box stores something like 50 phone calls. It's nice because
- > even if the person is calling from out of the area, I know the date and
- > time of their call. I have a voice mail service from the phone company,
- > but even if the person doesn't leave a message, I know they called. I
- > think it's great.
- >
- > Curt
-
- I wonder if you can have a print out of your calls, who called you, what types
- of calls, and a price quote of how much the call was to you.. Also how long
- the call was.. Kind of like what a FAX can do, but also what your phone company
- sends out every month, but you can get it from your phone without having to
- talk to the 'phone' company.. I wonder how long before
- FAX/Modem/Telephone/Printer are just the same thing.. kind of like what
- happened to the fax and modem..
- Ghost Wheel/Morgoth NSMCA@acad3.alaska.edu
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