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- From: jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond)
- Subject: Re: Op-ed piece on telephone Caller ID
- Message-ID: <x2_s1lf@dixie.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 06:07:14 GMT
- Organization: Dixie Communications Public Access. The Mouth of the South.
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- cs737@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John B. Baron) writes:
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- >Caller ID wouldn't identify *you* anyway. All it would give is your phone
- >number. Your phone number is not *you*, just as, interestingly but not
- >surprisingly, your e-mail account info. is not you. Anyone out here can
- >send you e-mail despite the fact that you hide who you are.
-
- (His real name is "terminator" or at least that's what he used to go by.)
-
- Actually Enhanced Caller*ID now becoming available in many areas DOES
- transmit the name of the caller. I like that feature. I don't have
- to quickly search a list of numbers of people I'll take calls from
- while the phone rings away.
-
- John
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