Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!ames!killer!vector!telecom-gateway From: westmark!dave@rutgers.edu (Dave Levenson) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: How to use Caller*Id? Message-ID: Date: 1 Apr 89 04:21:21 GMT Sender: news@vector.UUCP Organization: Westmark, Inc., Warren, NJ, USA Lines: 27 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 121, message 2 of 6 Our business here in Warren Township, New Jersey, has a phone number which is not equal to the number of the Racketball Court a few miles away. But once or twice a week, someone reaches us while trying to call the racketball place. We have had Caller*Id in operation for a week, and we have now discovered that all of the racketball calls we got this week came from the same number (in nearby Somerville, according to the prefix). The next time we get a call from that number, we'll assume the caller doesn't want to talk to us. A question for the net: what should we do with him? Answer as if we were the racketball place and give him the reservation he'll probably request for the court? Answer as if we were the racketball place and refuse his request? Tell him, for the umpteenth time, that we are not the racketball court? Call the racketball place on the other line, and conference him in? We could then eavesdrop and perhaps obtain the caller's name! Any other suggestions for fun? -- Dave Levenson Westmark, Inc. The Man in the Mooney Warren, NJ USA {rutgers | att}!westmark!dave