From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 13:26:59 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Is Anonymous Communication only for "Criminals"?
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bureau42 Anonymous Remailer <nobody@bureau42.ml.org> writes:

> >(Even the _ability_ to block a pay phone, qua pay phone, must imply that
> >pay phones send out some kind of signal announcing themselves as pay
> >phones, which I had not heard of before. I assumed a pay phone was Just
> >Another Phone Number.)
>
> Caller ID identifies most pay phones as "PAY PHONE".

Many years ago the phone company tried to assign pay phones phone numbers
of the form xxx-9xxx. They no lobger do in area codes/exchanged where the
numbers are very scarce.

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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps