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- From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
- Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk,sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Caller ID block?
- Message-ID: <eeXPwB2w165w@cybrspc.UUCP>
- Date: Fri, 01 Jan 93 15:55:01 CST
- References: <1993Jan01.010854.12298@lunatix.uucp>
- Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN
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- chelf@lunatix.uucp (Chad Helfenberger) writes:
-
- > In article <BD.92Dec28071720@fluent.UUCP> bd%fluent@dartmouth.EDU writes:
- > >
- > >If CID is not available, then my phone will display a message
- > >that ID is not available, as opposed to a blocked call when my
- > >phone will say the Caller ID is blocked. I will answer the former,
- > >but will very likely not answer the latter.
- >
- > Why? In both cases, you don't know who is calling. I just can't see the
- > reasoning here. If the reason you're not answering the phone is because you
- > don't know who's calling, then why would you answer a call from an area
- > without cnid?
-
- You're missing a very obvious point, Chad. The reason bd isn't
- answering the phone is not because he doesn't know who's calling... it's
- because the calling party is not volunteering the information.
-
- Those are two distinctly different circumstances.
-
- I agree with bd. If/when I can have CNID, I'll think twice about
- answering an anonymously-placed call. Calls with unavailable ID will be
- answered as usual (whatever 'usual' is).
- --
- Roy M. Silvernail -- [my machine ] "Sometimes, you're the windshield....
- roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu [my opinions] sometimes, you're the bug!"
- cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu [my $0.0275 ] --Mark Knopfler
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