Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: irvin@northstar7.dartmouth.edu (Tim Irvin) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: ANI Demo Resurfaces Message-ID: Date: 19 Feb 91 10:48:38 GMT Sender: news@casbah.acns.nwu.edu Organization: Project NORTHSTAR, Dartmouth College Lines: 31 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 134, Message 5 of 9 Originator: telecom@delta.eecs.nwu.edu In article <74674@bu.edu.bu.edu> Andy Jacobson writes: X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 114, Message 10 of 10 >Access Logic Technology's (?) ANI demonstration (via MCI) is once >again available from an 800 number. It is 800-933-3258. Hitting the # >sign will cut to the chase. I, of course, have no affiliation with this >company. I tried this number from a phone behind the Dartmouth switch. The ANI gave me a local (but off campus) number as the one I was calling from. The exchange for Dartmouth is 646, and the number it gave me was 643-5856. I then called 643-5856 (area code 603, BTW) and I got a recording that "The number you have reached 6-4-3-5-8-5-6 is not in service in area code 6-0-3. . ." This strikes me as a great way to get around these ANI guys getting ahold of you and your number. Tim Irvin Project NORTHSTAR Dartmouth College [Moderator's Note: What I have discovered in my testing to date is that the number passed for ID may or may not be the actual number being used. If a bunch of phones are all associated with one billing number then often as not, the billing number gets passed. And what is true for Caller*ID is usually true for *57, *60 and *69 as well, meaning you may or may not trace / screen / call back the actual phone which called you . PAT]