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- Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!oasys!curt
- From: curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Caller ID block?
- Message-ID: <28846@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 06:01:35 GMT
- References: <DqTsVB5w165w@cybrspc.UUCP> <1h69kiINNar0@crcnis1.unl.edu>
- Reply-To: curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch)
- Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD
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- In sci.electronics, vporguen@unlinfo.unl.edu (victor porguen) writes:
- >Sure, money has nothing to do with it. It's a social service, right?
-
- I may differ from you in my ideas about the "worth" of Caller ID,
- but I do have to agree with you on this issue. The phone companies
- are making a nice little income from selling unlisted numbers, and
- then selling Caller ID, and then selling call trace, and then selling
- Caller ID block, and then selling Caller ID block block, and then
- selling second phone lines ...
-
- If the phone companies could't make money off of it, we wouldn't
- have Caller ID. Why, just think about how much money they've made
- leasing communications lines to transport these news articles!
-
- Curt
-