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From: ebh@argon.UUCP (Ed Horch)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Modems capturing caller-ID?
Message-ID: <841@argon.UUCP>
Date: 27 Dec 90 14:14:33 GMT
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In article <138686@pyramid.pyramid.com> csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) writes:
>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.

This would be a Really Good Thing except that even small sites usually
have a news or mail neighbor that dials out from behind a PBX.  The
capability exists to have Caller ID pass a PBX extension, but in
reality, you get the number of the trunk via which the call arrived.

Therefore, the valid number table would have to know about all the
trunks in the PBX's outgoing trunk group.  Nasty.

(There was much talk of this some time ago centered around the idea of
using Caller ID to screen out calls from telemarketers.  See the
telecom-privacy [*not* comp.dcom.telecom!] mailing list for current
discussion.)

-Ed