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From: perelgut@utcsrgv.UUCP (Stephen Perelgut)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.misc,net.legal
Subject: Re: querry: desirable phone features. legal/technical aspects.
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Date: Sun, 28-Aug-83 10:21:01 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 28 10:21:01 1983
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If I were listening to this right now and if I owned a telephony company
I would be making plans.  I would start offering a service which did not 
prepend the users telephone number.  Trivially, I would put a fake header 
stream there.  Less trivially, I could just route all their calls without
header through a central switch.  Then all the receiver could tell was
that a <non-Bell> company call came through.  Perhaps even Ma Bell would
offer this sort of "unlisted" number.

Second offer would be a little device that you could use to change the
prepended number.  Possibly not for legal purposes, but a useful toy.
-- 
Stephen Perelgut    Computer Systems Research Group    University of Toronto
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