HGSCHULZ@cs.umass.edu (Henning Schulzrinne) (09/06/89)
While most correspondence (enough to fill a CD-ROM or two) seems to have dealt with the privacy aspects of caller ID, there is, in my opinion, a rather legitimate use of caller ID in the business setting. For the purposes I will discuss below, showing the caller name would be preferable (and also solve the unlisted number issue, but not the necessarily the crank call problem.) My last name is not particularly suited for voice telephone transmission and human speech recognition. (My German way of pronouncing my German name does not help, I admit.) In other words, each time I ask for info, place an order or whatever, I end up spelling my name at least twice and still get amazing permutations on the mail that follows. People from India, Greece, and Poland (among others) share that problem. I would be willing to pay a small monthly fee if the receiving end could see my name and, if I choose to release it by pressing a button, say, my address. Henning Schulzrinne (HGSCHULZ@CS.UMASS.EDU) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Massachusetts at Amherst Amherst, MA 01003 - USA phone: (413) 545-3179 (EST) FAX: (413) 545-0724