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From: Leonard P Levine <len@csd4.csd.uwm.edu>
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Subject: Re: Caller ID on 800 Service
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Date: 29 Dec 89 19:55:45 GMT
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 From article <2367@accuvax.nwu.edu>, by john@bovine.ati.com (John Higdon):

> How's that grab all you privacy phreaks out there? :-)
 
> [Moderator's Note: John, I suspect many of the privacy phreaks would
> go so far as to say just because some company is paying for their
> call, that company still has no right to know the number of the call
> they are paying for!  Just a guess, but there are some extremists in
> that camp.  PT]

I do not know about other privacy freaks, but here in Wisconsin there
are several "anonymous" 800 numbers you can call with crime tips.

They all stress that no one will ask your name, special codes are used
to insure privacy, rewards are given etc. all with no way of detecting
just who was the tipster.

Lots of people believe that these systems are secure, when they find
out that they are not, they will feel tricked.  Nothing is more
offensive to a person than to find that a trusted person has just
played a trick on them.

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