Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!lll-winken!ames!killer!vector!telecom-gateway From: kaufman@polya.stanford.edu (Marc T. Kaufman) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Calling Party ID Suspension Message-ID: Date: 17 Mar 89 06:17:32 GMT Sender: news@vector.UUCP Reply-To: "Marc T. Kaufman" Organization: Stanford University Lines: 30 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 94, message 7 of 7 In article ms6b+@andrew.cmu.edu (Marvin Sirbu) writes: >The problem is not with caller ID per se, but with making it compulsory. I see >nothing wrong with providing callers the option to disable automatic >forwarding of caller ID to callee. If I am a drug prevention hot line, >I will choose to accept all calls whether or not the caller has disabled >forwarding of his/her ID. On my home phone, I will probably choose not to >answer or let my answering machine pick up, if caller ID has been diabled by >the caller... I read (somewhere ?) that calls to 911 will not complete if caller ID is disabled. Marc Kaufman (kaufman@polya.stanford.edu) [Moderator's Note: I think not. Calls to 911 complete regardless. For example here in Chicago, dialing the number 312-787-0000 connects to Chicago Emergency while leaving the police dispatcher with a blank for the calling number. This number is intended for use by TSPS operators, whom it seems are unable to dial 911 from their consoles. In theory, when the operator receives an emergency service request, he is supposed to stay on the line until 911 (actually 787-0000) answers and then pass the number *as he sees it* to the emergency dispatcher. Not all of them bother doing it. Likewise, emergency calls are sometimes placed to the City of Chicago centrex operators; they hit a transfer button and send the call sailing off to 1121 South State Street at 911 H.Q. Calls transferred that way do not show caller ID to the dispatcher either. PT]