Re: CALLER ID ~~ MYSTERY

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From: Steven Francisco
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 00:00

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Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> 
> 
> You people just _aren't_ listening out there, are you?
> 
> You _can't_ pay any LEC to "let you spoof Caller ID".  If they _catch
> you at it_, the _least_ they're likely to do is pull your service, if
> you don't get arrested.
> 
> The fact that one reasonably common CO switch fails to proper validate
> such things is a completely different matter.
> To quote from the phone book (1996-97, Greene County OH):
Caller ID
.................................$6.50 per month
Lets you identify the tellephone number of the person who's calling ....

To block your number from being displayede, before ech call:
Dial, *67 (1167 on a rotary phone).

Per line locking ia available for a monthly subsription fee.


Sound close enough to 'spoofing' Caller ID to me.

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From: Steven Francisco <stevenf@donet.com>
Subject: Re: CALLER ID ~~ MYSTERY
Date: 1996/12/04
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