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Re: - Junk E-mail ? - Just send it back

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From: Bruno Wolff III
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 00:00
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From article <33392c94.65789780@news.execpc.com>, by dpdragon@execpc.com:
] On Tue, 25 Mar 1997 15:34:27 -0800, "Matthew E. Lowerr"
] <mlowerr@execpc.com> wrote:
] 
]>This is a good idea, however I would advise doing this from a pay phone,
]>because they probably have a caller ID or something like that on the
]>800#, so then not only would they have your E-MAIL, but they would also
]>have your PHONE NUMBER.. personally I would rather have junk e-mail than
]>I would phone calls, because it is easier to get rid of junk e-mail than
]>�live� sales people [I've had them CALL ME BACK after I've hung up on
]>them!!]
]>
] 
] If you don't want your number displayed on someones caller ID just
] dial *67 before dialing their number. 
] 

800 numbers don't use caller ID, they use ANI. You can't block this.
Also be carefull just blindly entering *67. At least in the past, in some
areas this was a toggle not a turn off caller ID command. This had the
effect of enabling caller ID on lines that had it blocked by default.
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From: bruno@cerberus.csd.uwm.edu (Bruno Wolff III)
Subject: Re: -   Junk E-mail ?  -  Just send it back
Date: 1997/03/26
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