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From: woolstar@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (John D Woolverton)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Phone Magic and the Free Hardware Foundation
Message-ID: <10082@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Date: 18 Mar 89 06:01:07 GMT
References: <7323@fluke.COM>
Organization: California Institute of Technology
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> Oh! One other feature my phone-of-the-future should have: If someone wanted
> an unpublished number, they could "cloak" it, that is, the number would be
> available for database lookup so the person's name would appear on my

I can just see new local businesses springing up all over, 976-HIDE
numbers that you can call, and then call through, and your number
will be "cloaked", and the bigger ones can offer:  never the same
"cloaked" number twice.  Oh boy, random phone number generators.
I've wanted calling number Ident, for years now, because my dad
worked at the phone company, and I found out that the phone company
had incoming call identification 10 years ago.

"It's not just me, everyone's doing it"