Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!limbo!taylor
From: ropg@ooc.uva.nl (Rop Gonggrijp)
Newsgroups: comp.society
Subject: Re: Caller-ID
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Date: 14 Oct 90 08:04:01 GMT
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Peter da Silva talks about dealing with junk phone calls through use 
of ISDN, noting that it should prevent the activity happening in the
first place, rather than stopping it once it happens, which isn't as
good a solution.

The phone network was never meant to give the called person direct
id on the person calling.  Same thing with letters: I don't have to 
show ID to be granted the right to mail something. Sure, I can mail 
nasty things to people, but I still think it's nice for people to be 
able to mail me stuff without worrying whether I tell anybody who they 
are. (I publish a hacker-magazine in Holland, so this does come in handy).

Rop Gonggrijp