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- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!warwick!uknet!almac!alan.barclay
- From: alan.barclay@almac.co.uk (Alan Barclay)
- Newsgroups: uk.telecom
- Subject: Caller ID
- Message-ID: <284.612.uupcb@almac.co.uk>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 10:29:00 GMT
- Reply-To: alan.barclay@almac.co.uk (Alan Barclay)
- Organization: Almac BBS Ltd. +44 (0)324 665371
- Lines: 22
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- JL> phone. Just for something slightly different, why an 'ordinary' (i.e.
- JL> domestic) subscriber would refuse to accept a call knowing the caller's
- JL> number ? To me this is equivalent to refusing to open any letter which
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- My girlfriend has caller ID, she's canadian. And she often
- doesn't answer based on the caller ID. She sometimes doesn't want
- to talk to people, eg her mother, so knowledge of who is calling
- can help. She originally got it because of a nuissince (I can't
- spell it either) caller, phoning her at 2am. Another good use is
- to know who called when she was out, she has an answering
- machine, but most people don't bother leaving a message.
-
- JL> I'm not sure what sort of additional protection the knowledge of caller I
- JL> offers in such a situation.
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- Why do you get phonecalls, but no-one going door to door heavy
- breathing? It's because the anominty of phone calls. Remove than
- anominity, and you can help reduce the occurance.
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