Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!usc!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!gryphon!vector!telecom-gateway From: ficc!peter@uunet.uu.net Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Caller ID Privacy Question Message-ID: Date: 28 Aug 89 01:40:47 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 45 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 329, message 2 of 7 This is a response to , posted by arnor!uri (Uri Blumenthal) I said: > > (a) Have a 'privacy' prefix, like the current *70 Cancel Call > > Waiting prefix. Uri said: > a) Cancel Call Waiting is NOT necessarily *70. Actually, > somewhere it simply doesn't exist (:-). You're picking nits. The point is to have a privacy prefix. Not what the particular prefix is. I said: > > (b) Telephones with unlisted numbers show up as 'unlisted'. Uri replied: > b) To allow ANY number to be just 'unlisted' will screw up all > the system. Why? This statement is so outlandish I can't conceive what line of reasoning can lead to it. Could you be so kind as to explain just what you're getting at here? Finally, he argues: > The only way is to make some codes/names show up > instead of real phone numbers, so that the caller CAN BE > IDENTIFIED, but YOU CAN'T CALL HIM BACK. I want to be able to call them back. I don't see why you would even want to have the service if you can't see the number of the phone that's calling you. What would be the point? The service is desirable (I want it, anyway). The only question is how to preserve the privacy of people who, for whatever reason, don't want their phone numbers to be public knowledge. The two conditions I described provide this protection. I have absolutely no idea why you would want ANI under the sorts of circumstances you're advocating. The service you really seem to want is some sort of automatic call tracing, for your own protection. If you want that, that's fine... but you shouldn't confuse it with ANI. --- Peter da Silva, *NIX support guy @ Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Biz: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Fun: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-' "Just once I'd like to meet an alien menace that isn't immune to bullets" 'U` -- The Brigadier, Dr Who.