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- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 20:40:43 GMT
- From: guest%@rutgers.edu (GUEST Account)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: What Number Am I Calling From?
- Message-ID: <telecom12.645.13@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: Information Technology, University of Louisville
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 645, Message 13 of 17
- Lines: 32
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- In article <telecom12.624.1@eecs.nwu.edu> wdp@gagme.chi.il.us (Bill
- Pfeiffer) writes:
-
- > In a recent TELECOM digest, ricochet@spatula.rent.com (Rick O'Shea)
- > writes:
-
- >> Is there a way to get the number of the phone you're calling from?
- >> For example, the payphone in my laundromat isn't marked and the store
- >> owner says he doesn't know what it is. There's times when it would be
- >> more convenient to have somebody call me back, but if I don't know the
- >> number, how can they?
-
- > We used to have to call collect to a pre-arranged person who would
- > refuse charges and request the number so the fictitious party could
- > allegedly call back.
-
- > Now-adays, why not just call someone with caller ID and get the number
- > that way?
-
- > Keep in mind that not all pay phones are set up to receive incoming
- > calls. I would test it before waiting for that 'important' call-back.
- > As far as I know, there is no other way to get a number of the pay
- > phone.
-
- How about looking up the ANAC codes list in TELECOM Digest, Volume 11,
- Issue 408. It was published May 30, 1991, but if you can't look back
- that far, I can mail it to you if you want.
-
-
- dembry@nyx.cs.du.edu Darren Embry
-
-