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From: peter@taronga.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Caller ID problems
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Date: 13 Apr 91 14:39:31 GMT
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gast@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (David Gast) writes:
> Use an answering machine.  It works much better than Caller ID.

An unsupported assertion. My my. Please expand on this.

> There are many examples were there is a necessity to block CID.

No argument about that. How about working on supporting that point instead
of throwing the baby out with the bathwater?

> I already use public telephones for 800 numbers, but the fact is that I
> pay for my phone and I would like to be able to use it.  If I can't use
> it to make phone calls, perhaps I should just get rid of it.

You can't use your phone to make phone calls. I can't use my phone to receive
them. How will we ever get anything done?

> CID will not help much with telemarketers.  They have many phone lines,

All on the same prefix. "Oh, it's one of those 242 lines again. Let the
machine take it". Caller-id works here. Call-block doesn't, unless you can
block wildcards. :->
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