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Re: CALLER ID ~~ MYSTERY

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From: Robert E. Klimkiewicz, Jr.
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 00:00
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Cary B. O'Brien <cobrien@access5.digex.net> wrote in article 
> Dave Barry did a _great_ column on this when the whole caller
> ID thing started.  First you pay for caller id, then the other
> guy pays to blank out your caller id.  Then you pay more for
> super caller id that he can't block, then he pays more for
> ultra caller id that gets through even if you block it...
> 
> 'till the phone company gets all the money to beam messages
> directly into your brain using cosmic ray machines...

Kinda like radar detectors?  =)
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From: "Robert E. Klimkiewicz, Jr." <robertk@clark.net>
Subject: Re: CALLER ID ~~ MYSTERY
Date: 1996/11/22
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