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- From: strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight)
- Subject: Re: Caller ID suggestion
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.032216.27223@netcom.com>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 03:22:16 GMT
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- Carl Kadie posts a description of blocked blocking. As long as it
- considers calls from phones that don't have the possibility of sending
- their ID as calls not blocked, it sounds fine. But I'd want to be
- sure my mother in Lower Siwash Falls, which still uses tin cans and
- string, can get through. In other words, it should require a call
- or line to take some affirmative action to be considered
- blocked, whether per call, or per line with per call unblocking.
-
- I have nothing against those who wish to block their calls, as
- long as I can automatically refuse such calls without difficulty
- or annoyance. That is a brilliant scheme for preserving the caller's
- definition of privacy (he doesn't want to be known even when HE made
- the call), and mine (I don't want masked men ringing my phone).
-
- I think most people on both sides of this issue would be happy with
- this approach, assuming it's readily feasible in the next year and
- isn't yet another stall by the blockers.
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- David
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