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- From: chelf@lunatix.uucp (Chad Helfenberger)
- Subject: Re: Caller ID block?
- Organization: Lexington Public Access Unix. -KY- (606) 255-9121
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 06:01:56 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.060156.16040@lunatix.uucp>
- References: <BzIyAp.J4t@ns1.nodak.edu> <1992Dec20.154931.23507@lunatix.uucp> <1992Dec21.010058.15475@cc.gatech.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec21.010058.15475@cc.gatech.edu> byron@cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff) writes:
- >It's finally time for me to jump in here. Some of my own ideas are present.
- >
- >>>>The only problem I see with the kill list idea is that most businesses have
- >>>>multiple phone lines, and I'm pretty sure (not certain) that the kill list
- >>>>will have a limited memory.
- >
- >Memory is not a problem. It's one of the cheapest parts of a system like this.
- >Even a half a meg is not an unreasonable expectation.
- >
- >As for multiple phone lines it might be reasonable to exclude an entire area
- >code + prefix. That'll usually get all the business lines.
-
- Are you *truly* serious about the excluding an entire area code + prefix? I
- laughed so hard when I read that I thought it must be a joke, however,
- reading the rest of your message, I assume you ARE serious. Why would you
- want to continously make a list bigger and bigger, when you can easily just
- pick up the phone, listen, and if it is a telemarketer, you say, 'Do NOT
- call me EVER again.' Then hang up. Simple as that. No need to buy a box,
- no need to shell out 40 bucks for another meg of RAM every week.
-
-
- [part about not putting money on telemarketers deleted]
- >
- >Guess what: THEY'RE NOT! They'll take advantage of that in a minute. Imagine
- >what would happen is a really important or emergency call came through when
- >you're not home. The best you can expect is an answering machine to take the
- >message. Emergency personel would have to get your number from somewhere if
- >a family member were in trouble (i.e. wallet, purse, ID bracelet). Those items
- >are on the person so the emergency code could be written along with the phone
- >number. What other truly emergency situations might arise?
-
- Why make it harder on the EMS/Hospital? Why can't you remove the 1984
- aspects of this altogether and forget adding millions of numbers to a kill
- list as they are placed? All the reasons you stated for using the emergency
- ID sequence (or whatever you want to call it) are very good arguments
- against CNID.
-
-
- --
- Chad Helfenberger
- (chelf@lunatix.uucp)
-