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- From: andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner)
- Newsgroups: pnw.general
- Subject: Re: Caller ID
- Message-ID: <1699@shaman.wv.tek.com>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 18:20:58 GMT
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- "And this is the important point that most seem to have missed.
- If you have an unlisted number, you won't be in any of the
- reverse directories."
-
- You won't be in a directory printed by a phone company. There's an
- excellent chance you'll be in a private directory, if you ever gave
- your home number to a large merchant. Check out the "criss-cross"
- books at a public library. It's appalling how many "unlisted" numbers
- appear there.
-
- "All these battered women's shelters and court employees need
- to have is an unlisted number."
-
- Obviously a women's shelter must have a listed number so that battered
- women can find it. So now we're faced with putting a second, unlisted
- phone line in the shelter, just to make this scenario work. Women's
- shelters are shoestring operations -- this isn't going to fly. But
- per-line blocking is adequate here -- *if* it doesn't add to the
- monthly bill.
-
- -=- Andrew Klossner (andrew@frip.wv.tek.com)
- (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew)
-