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- From: jcw@kd4dts.dixie.com (John C. Wren)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Caller ID
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.004400.9386@kd4dts.dixie.com>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 00:44:00 GMT
- References: <R2q3NB2w163w@fractal> <BrLL2B.M8M@andy.bgsu.edu> <1992Jul20.170049.3206@krfiny.uucp>
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- Ya know, there is a simple solution to all this talk about Caller ID and
- protecting your number. It costs a little bit, but it offers you several
- services in the process.
-
- 1) Obtain Caller ID (optional)
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- 2) Obtain Ring Master + Ring Master Controller
-
- Set it up like this:
-
- Your primary number is 555-1111
- Your secondary number is 555-2222
- Your (optional) tertiary number is 555-3333
-
- Connect your answering machine or (explitive deleted) box (a small device
- using a voice band DAA, a tape machine or ISD 1216 voice store chip) to the
- primary number. Connect your "nice" answering machine (optional) to the
- secondary number. Make all phone calls from the primary number. This gives
- out the primary number as your number. Friends calls you on your secondary
- number. People using the primary number (obtained on their end by Caller ID)
- get the nasty message. The tertiary number can be used by children, or if
- you expect business calls, or whatever purpose makes you happy.
-
- I'm in the process of building a small microprocessor controller that contains
- Caller ID circuitry. If I get a call from a Caller ID blocked number, you
- get dumped to a "I'm sorry. We don't accept calls from Caller ID blocked
- numbers. Please call again from an unblocked phone. *Click*" message. Out
- of area calls are handled passively, and get dumped to a answering machine.
- Phone numbers are looked up in a database (on a Unix system), and pumped out
- to a voice synthisizer that is connected to speakers through-out the house. If
- the hour is appropriate (i.e. not asleep), the name of the person is announced
- over the speaker system. Calls that come in on the primary number are given a
- nastygram. Calls on the secondary number are passed through the aforementioned
- hardware. If we don't answer the phone, then it gets dumped to an answering
- machine. I'd like to add the Ring Master decoder to version 2 of my hardware,
- but as it is, it goes through a Lynx Automation device (about $80). All in
- all, combined with a PBX, this gives the most privacy, most flexibility, and
- the most time to build and maintain hardware of any of the solutions.
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