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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 18:25 PST
- From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Colorado Gets Caller ID
- Reply-To: John Higdon <john@zygot.ati.com>
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- tim gorman <71336.1270@CompuServe.COM> writes:
-
- > Perhaps PacBell is making a marketing mistake by not offering caller
- > id even though mandated blocking restrictions would apply? Perhaps
- > their total revenues would be higher than if no blocking at all was
- > available?
-
- Maybe so. I, for one, would buy Caller-ID even if blocking applied to
- 99% of the state's telephones on a per-line basis. For me, the
- telephone is an instrument whose purpose is to communicate with
- friends, business associates, and customers -- plus people who could
- potentially become one of these. ALL OTHERS are of no interest to me
- whatsoever. Those who fit into the desired category of callers would
- never block CNID to me; those in the undesired category can block all
- they like.
-
- I look at CNID as sort of a "wired PL". Just as there are many users
- on some commercial two-way radio bands who stay out of each others'
- hair by the use of "private line" encoding, CNID allows a similar
- enhancement when using the public telephone network. You know that
- when the phone rings, it is a "desirable" rather than a wrong-number-
- idiot, a mysterious one-ringer pest, a hangup-when-you-answer creep, a
- telesales slime, or even a former customer whom you wish never to hear
- from again.
-
- Now if I could just convince Pac*Bell that there are others like me
- out there. Perhaps I could show them my e-mail ...
-
-
- John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 264 4115 | FAX:
- john@ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | 10288 0 700 FOR-A-MOO | +1 408 264 4407
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