Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!killer!vector!telecom-gateway From: gws@cbnews.att.com (Gary W. Sanders) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Calling Party ID Suspension Message-ID: Date: 17 Mar 89 15:57:40 GMT Sender: news@vector.UUCP Reply-To: "Gary W. Sanders" Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 42 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 95, message 1 of 5 In article "John B. Nagle" writes: > Not matter what happens with enable and disable, I would >hope that emergency services or at least the operator could >override system paramters and force a phone to ring. Also I dont know about the rest of you, but unless this services is free I doubt that I would ever want it. At work I need to answer the phone whenever it rings or at least have my machine answer it. At home I answer the phone. Do people really hate answering phones that much? Do you really have that few friends that you could enter their phone number into the "answer list"? I know the salemen are a pain, but "no I am not interested" seems to stop them or hang up the phone. About the only thing I would like from calling party ID is to tell me if its one of those machines calling. I hate coming home and having my answering machine tape used up talking to some other answering machine. These things are as bad as the machines that call YOU and put YOU on hold to wait for a sales person. What a pain!!!! In article levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin) writes: > If the phone company is going to ship the phone number >of the call down the line, then how about some more info. Tell me >the name of the person calling or at least the billing name. Sending >me a phone doesn't give me much info, how many phone number >do you know, I know freinds and family. You folks going to refuse to >answer the phone just because the phone number is unknown? maybe >uncle Bob has moved and want to tell you his new number.... It seems that the telco's are trying to nickle and dime folks to death with "service". I still wonder how a telco can charge for touch tone service. Seem to me that they would want to switch things around to get the "aunt Martha" off of rotary dial and into the 90's. How much additional cost is added to a switch to support pulse dial. Its got to start adding up. -- Gary Sanders (N8EMR) gws@cbnews (w) gws@n8emr (h) 614-860-5965 (353-5965 cornet)