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- From: niebuhr@bnlux1.bnl.gov (david niebuhr)
- Newsgroups: alt.privacy
- Subject: Re: Random phone number harassment
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.132658.12411@bnlux1.bnl.gov>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 13:26:58 GMT
- References: <phurley.78@tamu.edu> <1992Nov15.005732.1484@samba.oit.unc.edu> <BxqJHo.6np@cs.uiuc.edu>
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- Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
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- In article <BxqJHo.6np@cs.uiuc.edu> kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie) writes:
- >Terry.Parks@launchpad.unc.edu (Terry Parks) writes:
- >
- >The phone company apparently doesn't want to offer this because it
- >would make it harder for Radio Shack (for example) to quietly collect
- >phone numbers.
- >
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- In areacode 516, Long Island, New York, and a few other parts of the
- state a customer will be able to block any and all call identificaton
- to stores such as RS, Pudgies, etc. Caller ID becomes effective on
- Monday, November 16, 1992 in a/c 516.
-
- Dave
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- Dave Niebuhr Internet: niebuhr@bnl.gov / Bitnet: niebuhr@bnl
- Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 (516)-282-3093
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