Xref: utzoo alt.privacy:163 comp.org.eff.talk:1915 Newsgroups: alt.privacy,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: Telephone Caller ID's Message-ID: Reply-To: karl@ficc.ferranti.com (Karl Lehenbauer) Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation References: <13801@asylum.SF.CA.US> <1991Mar29.154847.16915@engin.umich.edu> <1991Mar29.201740.24251@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1991Apr03.002723.19571@ddsw1.MCS.COM> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 91 19:29:15 GMT Really you want a logical ID rather than a physical one. "Call from your husband" rather than "Call from 713-555-1212". Sure, then you'd have to enter an ID when you made a call. If you were using a phone card, though (for example), you'd have already entered one, or maybe run a magstripe through a reader on the phone. You could have private caller ID just with a little voicemail-type system. "You have reached Karl's house, enter your preassigned four-digit code now if you have one. For charity solictations, enter 0000, for unsolicited business calls, press 0000, if you are collecting for a delinquent bill, press 0000" :-) Then you can assign who's priority 1, 2, etc, etc. Trouble with this would be all the different four-digit numbers your various buddies would be assigning to you -- best to have a more universal ID. -- -- 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