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From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Modems capturing caller-ID?
Message-ID: <138686@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Date: 24 Dec 90 18:28:41 GMT
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Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA
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>>   Hmm, "RING FROM 5551212<cr>". "ATS99?<cr>" "5551212<cr><cr>OK<cr>"
>>   I would really look forward to a modem that would do this! 
>Me too!  Then the modem would answer all my calls!

So expand it a little, to make it *really* useful: the modem has a table of
phone numbers to which it will auto-answer; all others it ignores.  You can
do the same thing in the host if you are a Big Site, but for little guys like
my PDP-11 having the modem do it would be wonderful.

It would be the best modem security feature to come along in ages. It would
also mean I could leave the modem on-line on my regular house phone line, and
not worry about it whistling at my mother. :-)

<csg>