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From: decwrl!well.sf.ca.us!well!nagle@uunet.uu.net (John Nagle)
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Subject: Re: Finding Your Own Phone Number
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Date: 26 Sep 90 17:17:06 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 681, Message 11 of 11


     It's time to lobby for some standardized way to find out your own
phone number.  With Caller ID, the other end can find out; it's
annoying that you can't.  It would be especially valuable if it were
available in machine-readable form, probably as Touch-Tone signals or
in the same format used for Caller ID, so that devices like answering
machines and computers could locate themselves automatically upon
installation.  This would be really valuable when you plug a laptop
into a strange outlet, and it needs basic location info so it can dial
the appropriate local access numbers.


John Nagle