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- From: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: Re: Op-ed piece on telephone Caller ID
- Message-ID: <C18q5A.26E@cs.uiuc.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 05:34:21 GMT
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- jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:
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- [...]
- >The only part missing is giving me the ability to automatically block
- >incoming calls originating from caller*ID-blocked lines. Given
- >that, we are in full agreement.
- [...]
-
- This is sometimes called "block blocking". If your phone company cares
- to offer it, they can. Usually, they will not even mention until after
- blocking is required. Why? Because they don't want either blocking or
- block blocking, they want to sell telephone numbers to Radio Shack.
-
- - Carl
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- Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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