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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.privacy,comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Public Info (Was: Telephone Caller ID's)
Summary: Distinctive ring already an option.
Message-ID: <1687@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 2 Apr 91 21:36:54 GMT
References: <13801@asylum.SF.CA.US> <1991Mar29.154847.16915@engin.umich.edu> <1991Mar31.143128.785@darwin.ntu.edu.au> <1991Apr2.171000.492@odin.corp.sgi.com>
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In article <1991Apr2.171000.492@odin.corp.sgi.com> thant@horus.esd.sgi.com (Thant Tessman) writes:
:As for Telephone ID, what I want is an answering machine that I could enter
:a list of 'approved' callers.  Callers on the approved list would ring my
:phone.  Everything else (including non-self-identifying calls) would be
:aimed at the answering machine.  I'd pay big money for something like this.

Pacific Bell in the San Francisco area is already planning to offer something
along these lines.  You would give the phone company a list of preferred
callers.  Anytime you receive a call from someone on your Preferred Caller
list, the you would be notified by a distinctive ring.  Answering machines
that recognize the distinctive ring would soon follow.

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