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- From: nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu
- Subject: Re: Caller Block, Complete House Control.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.053616.1@acad3.alaska.edu>
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- Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks
- References: <1992Dec26.195727.1@acad3.alaska.edu> <28984@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 13:36:16 GMT
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- In article <28984@oasys.dt.navy.mil>, curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch) writes:
- > In alt.cyberpunk, nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu writes:
- >>I wonder if you can set it up so that you can program your phone for numbers
- >>you do not want to recieve from. After all if the phone tells you what number
- >>is calling, why can't you set it up to filter out known obnoxious numbers..
- >
- > I just saw a caller ID box for sale at Sears that does just that. I assume
- > you have to get them to call you before you can block the number - i.e.,
- > you can't just program-in the number.
- >
- > And the local phone company sells a call block service that also does this.
- > When you use the service from the phone company, I believe the person gets
- > a recording telling them the call was blocked.
- >
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- Why must we rent the service from the local phone company? Also when will all
- these neato gadgets be programmable from a central computer? It would be nice
- to have a computer program monitor everything, and be able to change things
- without going far.. After all, these gadgets are electronic.
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-
- Michael Adams
- Alias: Morgoth/Ghost Wheel
- nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu
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