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Article #20987Re: Phone Magic and the Free Hardware Foundation
From: John D Woolverton
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1989 06:01
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1989 06:01
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> Oh! One other feature my phone-of-the-future should have: If someone wanted > an unpublished number, they could "cloak" it, that is, the number would be > available for database lookup so the person's name would appear on my I can just see new local businesses springing up all over, 976-HIDE numbers that you can call, and then call through, and your number will be "cloaked", and the bigger ones can offer: never the same "cloaked" number twice. Oh boy, random phone number generators. I've wanted calling number Ident, for years now, because my dad worked at the phone company, and I found out that the phone company had incoming call identification 10 years ago. "It's not just me, everyone's doing it"
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!elroy!cit-vax!woolstar From: woolstar@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (John D Woolverton) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Phone Magic and the Free Hardware Foundation Message-ID: <10082@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Date: 18 Mar 89 06:01:07 GMT References: <7323@fluke.COM> Organization: California Institute of Technology Lines: 13