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From: dev!pbs.org!bhall@uunet.uu.net (Dark Star)
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Subject: Re: Finding Your Own Phone Number
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Date: 3 Oct 90 21:26:33 GMT
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In article <12897@accuvax.nwu.edu>, hplabs!mcdcup!phil@ucbvax.
berkeley.edu (Phil Weinberg SPS) writes:

> In article <12637@accuvax.nwu.edu> decwrl!well.sf.ca.us!well!nagle
> (John Nagle) writes:

>>     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

> I once tried to find out the number of an unidentified (untagged) pair
> by calling the phone company (Pac Tel) and requesting them to tell me
> what number I was calling from.  I was refused this information, and

I tried that once too with C&P Telephone in the Washington, D.C. area.

I've noticed that Domino's pizza delivery has caller ID boxes, so
maybe I should call them ask where I'm calling from ;-)

Or if you have a lot of lines a trouble keeping them all straight.
Not that we have *ever* misplaced a phone line :-), you could buy a
caller ID for one phone in the facility and call it to find out!


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