home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!hri.com!ukma!lunatix!chelf
- From: chelf@lunatix.uucp (Chad Helfenberger)
- Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
- Subject: Re: Caller ID block?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.213229.2063@lunatix.uucp>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 21:32:29 GMT
- References: <1992Dec14.031621.11007@athena.cs.uga.edu> <28487@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <1992Dec21.163742.1@acad3.alaska.edu>
- Organization: Lexington Public Access Unix. -KY- (606) 255-9121
- Lines: 26
-
- In article <1992Dec21.163742.1@acad3.alaska.edu> nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu writes:
- >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).
-
- Not necessarily. In most areas, a call through an operator or a calling
- card will also report 'Out of Area'.
-
-
-
- --
- Chad Helfenberger
- (chelf@lunatix.uucp)
-