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From: greg@hoss.unl.edu (Lig Lury Jr.)
Subject: Re: Information Hiding (was: Re: Caller ID problems)
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... greg@hoss.unl.edu (Lig Lury Jr.) writes:

>Why should the person see the
>number?  Make it automated, and don't reveal numbers.  You program your
>phone with known numbers you want to have ring specially.  Others behave
>normally.  You have the option of taking a call, deciding you never want
>to be contacted by that person again, and make the equivalent of a KILL
>file for that number.  You need not know the number.  You could also have
>a setup to automatically inform police officials of the offending call,
>who would be cleared for specific number information.

One thing useful would be to print a programmed name on a display for the
valid callers, so you'd know which OK caller it is.  Non-coded names would
display as OUTSIDE CALL or something like that.  During the call, you can
either register the call on your machine, refuse any further calls, or
leave it as unknown, ring.

Editing features will be needed, like being able to scroll through the
list of programmed names and change their status from valid to unknown or
ignored, and same the other way.  Direct programming by number would be
necessary, for primary configuration.  With the list scrolling, you could
have it automatically dial the number corresponding to that name.

All this WITHOUT revealing the phone number to you.

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