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From: bell@pooh.cs.unc.edu (Andrew Bell)
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Subject: Re: Obscene phone calls
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Date: 17 Jan 90 16:51:01 GMT
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In article <1990Jan15.005357.18559@sj.ate.slb.com> poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) writes:
>In article <11433@thorin.cs.unc.edu> bell@vangogh.cs.unc.edu (Andrew Bell) writes:
>>Fortunately,  as part of this same service,  you can see the number before
>>you pick up.  If they don't provide the number,  you can ignore the call
>>or let your answering machine deal with it.

>God, I hate posting sometimes!!

>You completely mis-read my post.

No I didn't.

>I said that the service also allows the caller
>to press a multi-key sequence BEFORE dialing his number, that will ABSOLUTELY
>prevent the receiving party from getting the callers number, meaning that the
>display on the receiving end will be blank, or say something like number not
>available.

Yes,  and *you* don't have to pick it up or even receive calls where the
number isn't provided.  Your relatives and friends aren't going to bother
not providing it,  nor is anyone with an important call,  so you aren't
going to miss anything by not answering.  So that feature (as a way of hiding
crank callers' numbers) won't make a difference.

>Is this clear enough?

Is this?

If it isn't,  email me.  I don't think anyone else is interested.


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