peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) (03/06/90)
I would loved to have had ANI the other night. Some bozo started
calling us and 3-way calling to random third parties, so we pick up
the phone and had it ring through to someone else's residence. The
operator, of course, couldn't help us... even when *we* had 3-way
called her while the bozo was still on the other line. We had to
ignore calls all night (and annoy another dozen or so innocent parties
who got our answering machine). I really wish I had a Caller*ID box
sitting by the phone right then.
And of course this particular scam wouldn't have worked from a
payphone: they don't (yet) provide 3-way calling.
Yeh, I know i could have gone through some rigamarole with Call*Trace
and Call*Return or some other Call*Bogosity to get them to shut up,
but it's just not flexible enough. My wife, for example, dislikes
making phone calls in the normal case, calling a harasser back is
pretty distressing... she needs to be able to call me at the office
and ask me to call such-and-such a number and get on their case.
Why not direct your efforts to some real problems, like the massive
abuse of RICO that's going on with hardly a whisper in the press?
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[Moderator's Note: Have you seen the Bell-Atlantic commercial for Caller*ID?
It shows a lady receiving an obscene call (or hints at it -- the words are
not stated on the television commercial). The lady recoils in horror, and
frightens away the obscene caller by pressing a button on her
Caller*ID read out, then reading the fellow's number back to him. We see
him humiliated by being exposed and identified. PT]