NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/comp/dcom/telecom/12736

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Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 16:20 PST
From: [e-mail] (John Higdon)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Caller-ID Substitute
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I have an interesting workaround to the lack of Caller-ID. It is
called DID. Here is how it works:

You have installed one or more DID trunks and buy 100 or 200 or
whatever necessary amount of telephone numbers from Pac*Bell. Then you
obtain a switch capable of DID with the additional ability to display
the called-number (the number the caller actually dialed to reach
you).  Now, when you give out phone numbers, you give a different one
to each and every person that calls you on any kind of a regular
basis. You also have a listed number that is always answered by a
machine for those people you might like to hear from but are not yet
privy to a "special number".

So now when pulling out of the garage and the phone rings, you see on
the display the number you gave to "Long-Winded Fred" and you just
keep backing out. It would be just like CNID, only you look for the
number you gave the caller rather than the caller's own number.

I may call my rep tomorrow and order DID. See? Getting around the lack
of CNID is easy; at least for people with sufficient means.


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