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- From: cs737@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John B. Baron)
- Newsgroups: alt.privacy
- Subject: Re: Op-ed piece on telephone Caller ID
- Message-ID: <1jr7upINNevr@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 10:51:04 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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- niebuhr@bnlux1.bnl.gov (david niebuhr) writes:
-
- > The reasoning is that the holder of the 800 number is paying
- > the bill, therefore is entitled to know where the call came
- > from. The same is true if you accept a collect call. That
- > number shows up on your monthly bill.
-
- I just dialed '0' and asked about this. The above, the operator
- told me, is correct. But if a person calls *from* your unlisted
- phone using his calling card, his bill will not show your phone
- number as the number from which the call originated. Instead,
- there will appear some sort of encrypted code in case there is
- a billing problem. By the way, the operator could be wrong.
- Chances are that the operators with more seniority don't
- get stuck on graveyard. And I called her at about 2:30 AM.
- (Good thing I didn't call her at home. But then again, if I
- were a telemarketer, I wouldn't care.)
-
- See ya,
-
- John
-