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From: mcbryde@karazm.math.uh.edu (Jack McBryde)
Subject: Re: Caller ID problems
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1991 14:02:37 GMT

In article <1991Apr10.142720.22627@panix.uucp> mara@panix.uucp (Mara Chibnik) writes:
>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

He could always just say "I was at a party.  I can't normally be reached
at this number.:

>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?

Two points.  1) If you are worried about getting calls from them there
are simple ways to circumvent the problem.  Get a second line to call from
and disconnect the ringer (one example).
2) I'm not interested in doing business with a mental health professional
who may not want to talk to me.  If I get a timely response from calling
the answering service I have no need to call directly.  If I'm not going
to get a timely response...

>>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?
>

If they are that worried about my knowing where they are calling from then
they are annoying me.

>-- 
>cmcl2!panix!mara          Mara Chibnik          mara@dorsai.com
>                     
>"It can hardly be coincidence that no language on earth has ever
>produced the expression "As pretty as an airport."      --Douglas Adams


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