Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!gryphon!vector!telecom-gateway From: munnari!batserver.cs.uq.oz.au!anthony@uunet.uu.net (Anthony Lee) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: CLI or CND: What Is Actually Displayed? Message-ID: Date: 19 Nov 89 04:04:01 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: anthony%batserver.cs.uq.OZ@uunet.uu.net Lines: 18 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 521, message 3 of 10 I was wondering with the Call Line Identity or the Calling Number Delivery service, what is actually displayed on the callee's telephone. Is it just the caller's number? Surely this wouldn't be very helpful. I mean the telephone book is indexed on surnames so wouldn't it better if the surname and initials of the caller be displayed? cheers Anthony Anthony Lee (Humble PhD student) (Alias Time Lord Doctor) ACSnet: anthony@batserver.cs.uq.oz TEL:(+617) 3712651 Internet: anthony@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (+617) 3774139 (w) SNAIL: Dept Comp. Science, University of Qld, St Lucia, Qld 4067, Australia [Moderator's Note: But you see, names are not unique to their users. Telephone numbers are. If my caller-ID box says 'John Smith', am I to look through a couple pages of the Chicago alpha directory at the hundreds of people in Chicago named 'John Smith' to find my caller? PT]