Xref: utzoo alt.privacy:257 comp.org.eff.talk:1978 Newsgroups: alt.privacy,comp.org.eff.talk Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!hoss!hoss.unl.edu!greg From: greg@hoss.unl.edu (Lig Lury Jr.) Subject: Re: Telephone Caller ID's Message-ID: <1991Apr06.215552.3909@hoss.unl.edu> Sender: news@hoss.unl.edu (Network News Administer) Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln 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: Sat, 06 Apr 91 21:55:52 GMT Lines: 26 ... karl@ficc.ferranti.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes: >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. These already exist. You dial, then must supply a code sequence before the phone will ring. The caller's name appears on a display so you can decide whether or not to answer. I'm not sure when it was I saw heard of this device, but it was long before all this talk about Caller 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 -- /// ____ \\\ "It says, `Golgafrincham Ark Fleet, Ship B, Hold 7, Telephone | |/ / \ \| | Sanitizer, Second Class,' and a serial number." "A telephone \\_(\____/)_// sanitizer? A dead telephone sanitizer?" "Best greg \_\\\/ hoss.unl.edu kind." "But what's he doing here?" "Not a lot."