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From: lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein)
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Subject: passing of calling party's telephone number...
Message-ID: <132@vortex.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Sep-83 05:27:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: vortex.132
Posted: Thu Sep 15 05:27:00 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 15-Sep-83 20:11:37 EDT
Organization: Vortex Technology, Los Angeles
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Transmission of a caller's telephone number to the terminating party
would accomplish nothing in terms of reducing obscene (or other similar
types) of calls.  The callers would simply move out to payphones, 
where the calling number wouldn't matter.  Even given call restriction
based on calling number capabilities, I suspect that most people
would need to allow calls from payphones to be accepted, since you never
know when an emergency situation may arise.  We can imagine more
complex identification techniques, of course.  However, I believe that
we are basically dreaming.  Some sort of call screening *is* coming,
but the passing of the calling party's number to the terminating
subscriber is not in the cards for the near future.  Even if such
technology were ready to be implemented, I would expect years of legal
battles from various parties to prevent its implementation for a 
relatively long period.

--Lauren--