[107936] in Cypherpunks
Re: caller-ID PCs, opting in/out
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Vogt)
Fri Jan 29 07:25:42 1999
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 13:11:35 +0100
From: Tom Vogt <tv@wlwonline.de>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Tom Vogt <tv@wlwonline.de>
Anonymous wrote:
> A friend noted that while the phone cos were required
> by law to send you a letter telling you how to NOT send your
> phone no. out (when Pac Bell turned that 'feature' on so they
> could sell caller-id features), they NO LONGER
> send such notices when you move.
>
> Therefore, more and more sheeple send their phone
> no. out on the line, since the default is to "opt in".
>
> Mighty convenient practice for Pac Bell, eh?
>
> Perhaps not unnoticed by other companies.
>
plus on ISDN lines, you send out TWO caller-id's, only one of which you
can disable (the other is used by the routing stations and not displayed
to the receipient).
