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From: michael@stb.uucp (Michael Gersten)
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Subject: Re: Speech on Telephone Privacy (Really Caller-ID once again)
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Date: 12 Dec 89 04:14:59 GMT
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In article <2007@accuvax.nwu.edu> Christopher Davis <ckd%bu-pub.BU.EDU@
bu-it.bu.edu> writes:

> > is NOT an answer.  Aside from being driven from a service I pay for,
> > tragedy can happen by ignoring emergency calls.  I found out the hard

>Thank you, Mr. De Armond, for one of the strongest arguments *in
>favor* of Caller-ID.  Presumably you'll have a better idea if you want
>to talk to someone if you know their phone number before you pick up
>the phone...

* Grrr. That's two non-thinking replies to the same point I just read.

This person is saying that if you ignore phone calls, you can be
ignoring important emergency noticies. Then two people claim that if
they don't know the number, then it can't be that important.

Do you know the number of all the hospitals in the area? What about the
police stations?

You cannot just ignore phone calls from numbers you don't know. So you
gain nothing by having ANI except being able to recognize numbers you
don't want to talk to. And since you're already at the phone it is
easy enough to just pick it up, hear the voice, and hang up.

ANI gives no effective new features to end users. It gives plenty of
ABUSE to people compiling information and selling it.

			Michael