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- From: palmer@icat.larc.nasa.gov (Michael T. Palmer)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,alt.security
- Subject: Re: Caller ID products?
- Date: 27 Jan 93 22:15:09 GMT
- Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA USA
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- palmer@icat.larc.nasa.gov (Michael T. Palmer) writes:
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- >palmer@icat.larc.nasa.gov (Michael T. Palmer) (me) writes:
-
- >>In Southeastern
- >>Virginia, we have Caller-ID with absolutely no blocking of any kind offered
- >>at any price. A telemarketer's dream, eh? I'm not sure if I should be
- >>screaming at the phone company, the State Public Service Commission, or
- >>both. I guess I'll start with both - I just found out that it was here
- >>(CNID) last week.
-
- >>I'll let you know if it'd do any good for you to scream at them, too. :-)
-
- >Actually, I just got a different story when I called Bell Atlantic just now.
- >"Anonymous Call Rejection" (misleading name, huh?) is available for 25 cents
- >per use. Sound reasonable? Not if you consider how few people will actually
- >pay a quarter extra for every local call to a business...
-
- There was a good reason the name was misleading. The TelCo rep I talked to
- was WRONG!! I got more and more suspicious, so I called again and got
- someone else who said:
-
- To not transmit a number: Anonymous Caller
- To reject calls not transmitting their number: Anonymous Caller Rejection
-
- Makes more sense, now. But I was right about NO BLOCKING AVAILABLE IN MY
- AREA CODE. No per-call or per-line number-blocking at all.
-
- So I still need to scream at them.
-
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