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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,alt.security
- Subject: Re: Caller ID products?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.134039.29554@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 13:40:39 GMT
- References: <C1GuJx.1Ax@revcan.rct.ca> <1k3vtbINNkk8@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> <palmer.728073717@news.larc.nasa.gov> <1993Jan27.174418.18400@ee.ubc.ca> <1k6ootINNs6q@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>
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- In article <1k6ootINNs6q@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>, unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh) writes:
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- | Why do they have that right? Why in the world do most countries have
- | strict laws, and the telephone companies strict rules ablut tracing
- | calls? The party certainly has the right to refuse to speak to you if
- | you don't identify yourself, but more than that is an invasion of my
- | privacy. I do not want to hand out my telephone number to any random
- | person I phone.
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- Why do you want to make anonymous calls? Are you the person who calls
- my mother and breathes at her? Or the guy who calls 21 times (so far) to
- sell me siding, and won't believe I have a brick house? What possible
- legal reason would you have for calling someone anonymously?
-
- For caller ID to work even reasonably well, it needs:
- 1. a way to block your ID when you originate a call
- 2. a way I can block all calls from unidentified callers
-
- You can get "outgoing only" lines, so if you don't want to be bothered
- by people calling back you can use that, but it's still tracable to you.
- Ideally feature (2) could be enabled and disabled, so you could turn it
- on from 10pm-7am to identify the drunk who called you in the middle of
- the night...
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- A terible poker player can have a great hand,
- A obnoxious fool can have a good idea.
- Both are winners, regardless of who has them.
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