Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: john@bovine.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Caller ID on 800 Service Message-ID: <2493@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 30 Dec 89 19:56:03 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 23 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 602, message 3 of 12 Leonard P Levine writes: > [concerning anonymous "tip" lines] > 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. I couldn't agree with you more. It would be totally inappropriate for such a service to have callers' numbers available to it, either by 800-style ANI or by CLASS implimentation. A service such as this would be out of business in a hurry if it was discovered to be keeping records of callers' phone numbers. But just because a service isn't appropriate everywhere for everybody is not an excuse to make it unavailable to anyone, is it? Call waiting is hardly an appropriate feature for a modem line, but is that any reason to make the service unavailable to anyone? No, you use things where they are useful, obviously. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@bovine.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !