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- From: dgillmor@msen.com (Dan Gillmor)
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- Subject: Re: Op-ed piece on telephone Caller ID
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 11:57:38 GMT
- Organization: Detroit Free Press
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- John De Armond (jgd@dixie.com) wrote:
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- : 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.
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- Unless Enhanced Called ID is smarter than we think, it can only transmit
- the name to which the caller's phone number is registered -- not quite the
- same as the name of the caller.
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