mcewan@uiucdcs.UUCP (09/12/83)
#R:ihuxl:-55000:uiucdcs:9700067:000:375 uiucdcs!mcewan Sep 11 12:44:00 1983 /***** uiucdcs:net.general / ihuxl!seifert / 11:12 am Sep 9, 1983 */ I think you missed the point. If your phone displays the number of the calling party, you DON'T NEED your seperate, unlisted number. /* ---------- */ You don't need the unlisted number IF you memorize all of your friends' phone numbers (I don't) AND all of your friends only call you from their homes.
preece@uicsl.UUCP (09/13/83)
#R:cca:-568700:uicsl:5400021:000:1044 uicsl!preece Sep 12 11:53:00 1983 I'd certainly like to see a 'calling phone number' display on my phone. I think the answer to the unlisted number case is to allow the caller to suppress display and also allow the recipient to refuse anonymous calls. Then the person with the unlisted number would have to choose between anonymity and silence. Of course, if the person with the unlisted number also had a listed line, as in the case mentioned previously, the phone company could offer the option of carrying the public number regardless of which line actually placed the call. As to Sprint, MCI, etc., aren't they supposed to be integrated into the system as part of open access? My understanding is that eventually you'll be able to specify your own 'default carrier' for toll calls and that the indirect path will then be unnecessary. [I KNOW this doesn't really belong in net.general, but I'm not sure where it does belong and this is the only place this discussion has appeared to date, so here is where i put it; handguns and airplanes i will only discuss elsewhere...]
dwl@hou5e.UUCP (09/13/83)
If my phone number is passed to everyone I call, then I cannot keep it to myself. I don't mind this, but many people buy unlisted numbers and try to keep them private. I keep seeing the suggestion that one's unlisted number could be arranged for incoming service only, thus preventing its use for outgoing calls, and self-identifying. This means that everyone who wants to keep a private number private must have two lines! (The other line is for outgoing calls only, I suppose, so the called parties who get its number can't call back.) This makes the cost of an unlisted number equal to the cost of two lines, doesn't it? -Dave Levenson -AT&T-IS, Holmdel
wm@tekchips.UUCP (09/14/83)
Well, how about making it so that unlisted phones show up on one of these boxes as a (unique) number that is different from the real number. That way both would work -- the box would show that number xxx-xxxx is calling, and could either answer or not answer, but the person with the box could not call the unlisted number, which is really yyy-yyyy. I know this would use up another phone number, but how many unlisted numbers are there? Would this be that hard to arrange with ESS? Would it be any harder to arrange than a box which displays the number of the party calling you? Wm Leler
Anonymous@inmet.UUCP (09/17/83)
#R:cbosgd:-31000:inmet:4000022:000:126 inmet!Anonymous Sep 16 11:30:00 1983 1) I am willing to accept anonymous calls - WHY NOT! 2) I want calls placed from here to be labelled anonymous - ABSOLUTELY!!