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In article <1993Jan05.040542.25904@chinacat.unicom.com> chip@chinacat.unicom.com (Chip Rosenthal) writes:
>I'm merely executing my duties as a deputized member of the logic police.

>In article <1993Jan5.024908.17284@seas.smu.edu>
>	doug@seas.smu.edu (Doug Davis) writes:
>>You guys do realize that ANI (Automatic Number Identification) is
>>available to almost anyone with an 800 number.  [...]
>This is a flawed analogy.
>
>Caller identity is *necessary* with 800 service.  If you are going to
>pay for calls received on your 800 number, you better well get an
>itemized detail of those charges.

Methinks, Mr Spock, that you need to reevaluate your position on
the logic of the above argument.  One could argue using your own
analogy that I am paying for my telephone therefore I deserve a list
of people and or numbers that call it. (yes but 800 numbers are
pay as you go)  I submit that, under the same logic,  cellular telephones
would fall into the same catagory since anyone can initiate a call
to one which would be billed to the recipient.

>>CLID is putting the power to choose who interrupts your life at
>>dinner time where it belongs.  
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>...for twice the price of an answering machine set in `screen' mode and
>at a fraction of the effectiveness.
Mr Spock your logic unfounded.  How can you possible judge effectiveness
by mere speculation.  *IF* I had the information available in the inbound
data stream to my telephone, you would be able to count the hours before
I had a "black box" that would redirect calls from numbers not in a list
to an answering machine. 

I might even have a "special" message reserved for certain numbers.

I feel that the above would be highly effective method of dealing
with people like ALLEN GWINN who inist on calling at each commercial break
during the premiere of Deep Space 9.

Oh yeah, shortly afterwards I'ed build another "black box" that would
do the samething for my computer, but it would only raise DTR to
the modem *IF* a call came from a known number.


doug