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From: dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Dave Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Caller ID problems
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.014525.1765@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 3 Apr 91 01:45:25 GMT
References: <1991Apr1.185518.9876@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <1991Apr2.082031.2343@unx2.ucc.okstate.edu>
Reply-To: dave@elxr.jpl.nasa.gov
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minich@unx2.ucc.okstate.edu (Robert Minich) writes:

>| If it ain't broke...don't fix it. This whole Caller ID thing is pretty
>| much BS imposed by TelCo in order to be able to trace phone calls faster.

>First:  Being forced to either blindly answer the phone or miss a
>        potentially important call _is_ broken. (Answering machines
>        are a poor or unacceptable solution for some people.)

Why is this broken? If someone can't deal with some obnoxious fool on the
phone, then who's problem is that?

How is caller ID going to solve this for the important people who call
from a phone number that the recipient doesn't know about?


-- 
Dave Hayes -  dave@elxr.jpl.nasa.gov - ames!elroy!dxh

       There is a saying: "I believe it because it is impossible"
If you make any study of people in a state of what they are pleased to call 
belief, you will find that you can usually best describe them by the saying:
                "My belief has made me impossible."