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Article #958Re: - Junk E-mail ? - Just send it back
From: Bruno Wolff III
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 00:00
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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 1065d0,6f3ce3da52419d6b X-Google-Attributes: gid1065d0,public X-Google-Thread: fcd36,6f3ce3da52419d6b X-Google-Attributes: gidfcd36,public From: bruno@cerberus.csd.uwm.edu (Bruno Wolff III) Subject: Re: - Junk E-mail ? - Just send it back Date: 1997/03/26 Message-ID: <5hbf8o$iut@uwm.edu> X-Deja-AN: 228507259 References: <33392c94.65789780@news.execpc.com> Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Reply-To: bruno@cerberus.csd.uwm.edu Newsgroups: milw.general,execpc.general Originator: bruno@cerberus.csd.uwm.edu