Eric Murray wrote:
They said no problem, but... They said nothing I can do will block it when I call 800 numbers.
CID != ANI, which has been around for a long time. 800 numbers have always had ANI available, to my knowledge.
Their answer: "that's just the way it works".
Correcto-mundo.
Wow. Maybe I'm not paranoid enough, but I never expected this. I can never again call an 800 number anonymously to get information about something unless I go out to a pay phone. What an incredible inconvenience, and how truly depressing.
Not "never again", but "never ever, past or future". All you 800 calls you made in the past went out with your phone number delivered to the recipient.
Caller ID isn't for people, it's for businesses who want to track callers.
Bull cookies. I have caller ID boxes on my lines. If somebody want to make noise in my house in an effort to get my attention, I damn well want to know who they are. ______c_____________________________________________________________________ Mike M Nally * Tiv^H^H^H IBM * Austin TX * For the time being, m5@tivoli.com * m101@io.com * <URL:http://www.io.com/~m101> * three heads and eight arms.