Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request Date: 21 Mar 91 05:11:55 GMT From: Robert Jacobson Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: My First Month of Caller ID in Atlanta Message-ID: Organization: Human Interface Technology Lab, Univ. of Wash., Seattle Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu 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 223, Message 2 of 9 Lines: 20 The "alleged horrors" which Bill Berbenich has not yet experienced as a result of one month of Caller ID have to do with duration and penetration. The telcos commonly pass off one month tests of small service populations as scientific surveys and are always relieved for their customers when alleged horrors do not occur. The point is to wait a couple years when a few tens of millions of more people are forced into Caller ID and the files have started being built up. Then let's see if the horrors happen, Bill. Bob Jacobson [Moderator's Note: What about in places like New Jersey, where Caller*ID has been a reality now for about a year? Maybe one or more of the 'veterans' of Caller*ID will write on the topic of abuses -- if there are any -- now that this new technology has had a chance to get established. PAT]