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Subject: Re: Caller ID: a modest proposal
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Date: 29 Jan 91 18:45:47 GMT
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In article <48611@apple.Apple.COM>, baum@Apple.COM (Allen J. Baum) writes:
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> 
> Would it be reasonable to allow caller-id, but report back not the phone
> number, but some 'encrypted' version of it. This is a number that could
> be reported to the police, or whatever....
 
It's already there. It's called Call*Trace or some such. If you have this
feature (it's not free and not available everywhere) you enter a *nn code and
the calling number is filed away where police and such can access it. The user
has no access to the information. Pricing seems to be about $1.00 per use from
what I've heard. I don't have it as my switch is a bit too old (like 20 years).

					R. Kevin Oberman
					Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
					Internet: oberman@icdc.llnl.gov
   					(415) 422-6955

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and probably don't really know anything useful about anything.