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From: mara@panix.uucp (Mara Chibnik)
Newsgroups: alt.privacy,comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Caller ID problems
Keywords: Caller ID
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.142720.22627@panix.uucp>
Date: 10 Apr 91 14:27:20 GMT
References: <1991Mar30.043415.7314@odin.corp.sgi.com> <1991Apr9.085207.19175@cs.ucla.edu> <1991Apr9.203202.3853@menudo.uh.edu>
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In article <1991Apr9.203202.3853@menudo.uh.edu>
mcbryde@karazm.math.uh.edu (Jack McBryde) writes:


>If some is calling me and I'm interested in talking to them, they
>aren't going to care if I know where they are calling from 

This isn't really for you to say, is it?  If your doctor takes a
call on the doctor's beeper from a party at a someone else's home,
is it up to you to decide that it's okay for that number to be shown
as one where that doctor may (sometimes) be reached?  I share a
telephone with a mental health professional who often has to return
calls for an emergency service.  The service calls our number; the
call to the patient is placed on our phone.  We do not want that
number available to patients.  How can you state categorically that
the caller doesn't care whether you know?

>aren't going to care if I know where they are calling from (or I won't
>care if they call).  If I'm not interested in talking to them, then I
>don't have a problem with there being a penalty associated with having
>them annoy me.


And if they aren't annoying you?


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cmcl2!panix!mara          Mara Chibnik          mara@dorsai.com
                     
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