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From: John Debert <amdcad!netcom!onymouse@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Unlisted Numbers and E911
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 From article <10517@accuvax.nwu.edu>, by samho@larry.cs.washington.
edu (Sam Ho):

> The matter ended when GTE announced on August 1 that the previous
> state of affairs would be restored: 911 operators would once again get
> the names of all callers, even one with unlisted numbers.

How could they possibly know the name of the person calling without
asking?  Billing name does not necessarily equal the name of the
caller. So, why waste space displaying the name?

GTE would have done better leaving names off the display. Could be
misleading and result in errors on the part of E.R. personnel.


jd 
onymouse@netcom.UUCP