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From: preece@uicsl.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: Transmission of caller's phone n - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 12-Sep-83 23:57:25 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 12 23:57:25 1983
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uicsl!preece    Sep 12 11:53:00 1983

I'd certainly like to see a 'calling phone number' display on my
phone. I think the answer to the unlisted number case is to allow
the caller to suppress display and also allow the recipient to
refuse anonymous calls. Then the person with the unlisted number
would have to choose between anonymity and silence. Of course, if
the person with the unlisted number also had a listed line, as in
the case mentioned previously, the phone company could offer the
option of carrying the public number regardless of which line actually
placed the call.

As to Sprint, MCI, etc., aren't they supposed to be integrated into
the system as part of open access? My understanding is that eventually
you'll be able to specify your own 'default carrier' for toll calls
and that the indirect path will then be unnecessary.

[I KNOW this doesn't really belong in net.general, but I'm not sure
where it does belong and this is the only place this discussion has
appeared to date, so here is where i put it; handguns and airplanes
i will only discuss elsewhere...]