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From: rees@dabo.ifs.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
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Subject: Re: Caller ID and 3AM Phone Calls
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Date: 14 Jun 90 16:10:21 GMT
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In article <8928@accuvax.nwu.edu>, covert@covert.enet.dec.com (John R.
Covert  12-Jun-1990 0932) writes:

> I'm not sure why John Higdon thinks that Caller ID would be more
> effective than other SS7 services in preventing his 3AM phone calls.

Here's my solution.  Back in the days when I still had telephone
service at home, I used to have a single Western Electric mechanical
ringer in the living room, with a switch on it.  I turned it off every
night when I went to bed.  The other twelve phones in the house all
had their ringers disconnected.

The problem with SS7 services is that you have to pay for them.

I'm all in favor of universal free Caller-ID with universal free
Caller-ID block.  (Where "free" means everybody has to pay for it.)