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From: mnemonic@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Mike Godwin)
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Subject: Re: A Thesis on Caller ID
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In article <10786@accuvax.nwu.edu> 0004169820@mcimail.com (Gilbert
Amine) writes:

>This is simply not the case. Most complaints about Caller ID stem from
>the right of callers to make anonymous phone calls, not the right of
>being spared from telephone solicitations from overzealous
>salespeople.

I realize this may be a naive comment, but won't "the right to make
anonymous phone calls" be preserved so long as we still have pay
phones in this country?

Wouldn't pay phones allow for effective caller anonymity even if
phones had optional settings that demanded caller phone numbers before
putting calls through?


Mike Godwin, UT Law School  
mnemonic@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu 
(512) 346-4190              


[Moderator's Note: You are correct about payphones, but what phreak do
you know who is going to go stand on a dark street corner on a cold
January night with a modem and terminal hunting for lines that answer
with carrier?  Some payphone abuse will continue, granted.  PAT]