Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Caller-ID for Pagers? Message-ID: Date: 29 Oct 89 06:01:03 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 30 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 478, message 7 of 9 In article , westmark!dave@uunet.uu. net (Dave Levenson) writes: > No!!! Use the Caller-Id default if the caller enters nothing at all. > Otherwise, let the caller enter the digital message to be displayed. This would solve one of the most frustrating problems a pager user can face. How many times have you suddenly found your pager going off repeatedly with no number in the display? Someone mistakenly gets your pager number thinking it is perhaps an ordinary telephone number or even someone else's pager number. Sometimes this can go on for days and it renders your pager useless. If the caller's number was put in the display as the default, you could call them and inform them that they have a wrong number. As it is now, you can only hope that they will figure out that the number they have isn't doing them any good. And find it out soon! John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o ! [Moderator's Note: Of course John, your plan, which sort of hints at using a self-remedy to cure the problem would likely be rejected by those who dislike or hate Caller-ID. They would say you have no right to know the identity of the caller, particularly since the call was not intended for you anyway. They would probably suggest you should be asking the telco to trace those calls; and that the telco would then, in their good time deal with the problem. Are you sure that finding out the identity of the caller not-intending-to-reach you wouldn't be a violation of their privacy or (ahem!) an 'illegal wire tap'? PT]