Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: "Marc T. Kaufman" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Unlisted Numbers and E911 Message-ID: <10791@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 13 Aug 90 02:03:22 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University Lines: 20 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 565, Message 6 of 9 In article <10764@accuvax.nwu.edu> amdcad!netcom!onymouse (John Debert) writes: >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. What is wanted is not the name of the caller, but the information that this is the "Frobaz" residence. It often proves useful -- e.g: officers on the beat tend to know that "Joe Frobaz" always beats his wife, or when they talk to someone at the door, if they ask for identification, and the name isn't Frobaz, they get suspicious. Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Neon.stanford.edu)