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- From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: Re: Caller ID suggestion
- Message-ID: <Bzn9zn.6In@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- References: <1h3kv1INNgd7@mirror.digex.com> <BzMvIA.Btu@cs.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec22.032216.27223@netcom.com>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 05:02:11 GMT
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- strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- No problem. All Caller ID systems that I've heard of distinish blocked
- calls from out-of-area calls. Blocked calls typically display as "P",
- for private. Out of area calls are marked differently (I don't
- remember the usual code). I believe this is standard on all systems
- that allow any kind of blocking (even when block-blocking is not
- offered).
-
- [...]
- >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.
- [...]
-
- I've never heard of a pro-blocker objecting to blocking blocking. It
- is the phone companies that object to it. I believe that object to it
- because block-blocking reduces the value of caller-id to, for example,
- Radio Shack.
-
- - Carl
- --
- Carl Kadie -- I do not represent any organization; this is just me.
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