Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!lll-winken!ames!killer!vector!telecom-gateway From: levitt@zorro9.fidonet.org (Ken Levitt) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Calling Party ID Message-ID: Date: 16 Mar 89 16:10:47 GMT Sender: news@vector.UUCP Lines: 28 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 93, message 5 of 6 writes> DG> In reality, it is not likely to help that much. The solicitors could DG> block their identification. With the proper equipment, I will route all calls with blocked ID to an answering machine. DG> The solicitors could get phones under innocuous sounding names--Bill DG> Jones, for example. Since only a few numbers would be recognizably bad, DG> the solicitors will just switch phone numbers. Again, assumeing proper equipment, I don't care what phone number they are calling from. All calls that are not from a list of known numbers in my database will be routed to an answering machine at certain times of the day. DG> Finally, these solicitors will be gaining a huge data base DG> of calling patterns from which to tailor-make their calls. I will be blocking my ID whenever a call to a business is made. Without the blocking feature, I am against the whole concept. Ken Levitt -- Ken Levitt - via FidoNet node 1:16/390 UUCP: ...harvard!talcott!zorro9!levitt INTERNET: levitt%zorro9.uucp@talcott.harvard.edu