Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!ficc!karl From: karl@ficc.ferranti.com (Karl Lehenbauer) Subject: Re: Caller ID problems Message-ID: Reply-To: karl@ficc.ferranti.com (Karl Lehenbauer) Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation References: <13945@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1991Mar30.230852.9730@menudo.uh.edu> <13948@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1991Apr1.024412.6474@menudo.uh.edu> <1991Apr1.185518.9876@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <1991Apr02.053541.27508@looking.on.ca> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 91 19:20:23 GMT In article <1991Apr02.053541.27508@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes: >Caller ID is not enough on its own. To really work properly, you want >to send all sorts of other info in the packet, including the type of >call and priority of call. Yeah, I favor an "unsolicited business or charity call/money request" bit or bits to screen out all of the tape recorders telling me I've just won something fabulous, Shriner and police association variants bugging me for money, etc, etc. (I mentioned this in a RISKS posting several months ago.) -- -- Have computer, will travel. Same old story, same old song; Come to Texas for the it goes all right till it goes all wrong. chili that burns twice!! -- Will Jennings