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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 01:33 PST
- From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: California PUC Reduces CLID Restrictions
- Reply-To: John Higdon <john@zygot.ati.com>
- Message-ID: <telecom12.920.5@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: Green Hills and Cows
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 920, Message 5 of 11
- Lines: 32
-
- On Dec 25 at 19:49, TELECOM Moderator writes:
-
- > [Moderator's Note: Well I *assumed* people who called and got the
- > routing device you have on the line were in fact being charged from
- > when that thing picked up ... are you saying the charging only begins
- > when either (a) a live person answers or (b) the system starts taking
- > a message or (c) the caller elects to page you? PAT]
-
- No, what I am saying is that now that there is no hope of CNID in
- California, ALL of my lines, including my private lines, will be
- processed by my answering machine. There will be no way to reach me
- directly because there will be no way for a direct-in caller to be
- identified. I will be modifying my call screener to request (via DTMF)
- the area code and number of the caller. Based upon that information,
- the screener will act accordingly. Naturally the caller can "lie", but
- for now that is all I have. BTW, no number, no further progress on the
- call.
-
- My apologies to all who will be charged needlessly for long distance
- calls, but the activists have given me no other alternative.
-
-
- John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 264 4115 | FAX:
- john@ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | 10288 0 700 FOR-A-MOO | +1 408 264 4407
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: Well good golly, how did you manage to make do all
- these years before Caller-ID was invented? How did you manage to deal
- with all the strangers on your phone lines in the past? Whatever you
- did, just keep on doing it. PAT]
-
-