Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!telecom-request From: 443114@acadvm1.uottawa.ca (Eric Skinner) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: How do I Set-up Caller*ID? Message-ID: Date: 15 Mar 91 15:50:16 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 23 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 205, Message 5 of 11 In TELECOM Digest V11 #198, TK0JUT1@niu.bitnet writes: > Threatening phone calls are a potential felony. Rather than worry > about Caller ID, call the police. There is nothing you could legally > do even if you had access to the source phone, and any action you took > could subject you, not him, to police enforcement. In most cities, > threatening calls are considered very serious, and generally the > culprits can be tracked very quickly if not using a public phone. Interestingly, I had a friend in Montreal who was receiving a large number of *harassment* calls, and Montreal police refused to do anything about it. Bell Canada refused to do anything, saying it was completely the police's responsibility. The police's line was that since they were "too busy," they did nothing about harassment calls unless "physical harm" was "explicitly threatened." The solution was to switch phone numbers ($27.00) and get an unlisted number ($4.00/month or so). We were not impressed. Eric Skinner 443114@acadvm1.uottawa.ca University of Ottawa +1 613 230 0261