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From: hobbit@pyrite.rutgers.edu (*Hobbit*)
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Subject: The Caller ID Foofaraw
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Date: 16 Mar 89 01:47:59 GMT
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X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 91, message 4 of 5

What sez that you'll know before picking up that the number you see is that
of some pre-recorded tape that wants to sell you carpets?  Is the subscriber
supposed to not answer any call from a number he doesn't know off the top of
his head?  Ridiculous.  The concept is sort of neat within itself in a
technical sense, reminds me fairly strongly of the way internet connections
work, but for most people I don't see why they'd really want it unless there
were some sort of harassment going on.  [And for that kind of "tracing", of
course, the LOCs want extra money.  Bletch.]

_H*