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From: claris!netcom!ergo@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Isaac Rabinovitch)
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Subject: Re: Caller ID and 3AM Phone Calls
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In <8928@accuvax.nwu.edu> covert@covert.enet.dec.com (John R. Covert) 
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.

>Call Trace would allow him to take legal action against the caller.

Very often, such callers aren't breaking any laws, just being
thoughtless.  There's a certain very popular motel which is
responsible for most of my wrong numbers; it's easy to transform their
number into mine if you reverse two digits and/or confuse a scribbled
seven with a scribble nine.  What's especially vexing is that this
motel (private jacuzzis, oversized beds; you know the kind of place)
attracts some very flaky people who keep dialing my number over and
over, sometimes abusing me for asking them to dial more carefully,
more often hanging up as soon as I answer; in both cases, they often
call me again *immediately*.  I often wish I had some way of
communicating my frustration at these people.

Another time I used to get a lot of calls meant for a Stanford student
who had my number before me.  This guy had quite an enviable social
life, judging from some of the messages left on my answering machine
 -- too bad I couldn't return some of the more interesting calls.