From: Stanton McCandlish <mech@eff.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 93 17:24:14 PST
To: Martin.Greifer@f28.n125.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Martin Greifer)
Subject: Re: modem taps/caller id
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Message-ID: <199311170122.UAA02039@eff.org>
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> > Practical Peripherals sells a modem that also captures Caller ID info
> > and makes   it available to your comm program.  I've also seen devices
> > that do this for   sale in the back of BBS magazines.
> 
> The question is, how does a caller block this feature?

Depends on the locality, but generally you have 2 options: temporarily
disable it with a *code, or get all-call-blocking.  In most areas, as far
as I know all-call-blocking (so you don't have to enter the *code for
every call) is a "special service" or "extra feature" and costs you more. 
This is of course utterly ludicrous, but that's what you'd expect from
semi-monopolies.

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