Can't block caller ID in Massachusetts?

Rich Graves rich at c2.org
Fri Jul 12 23:01:50 PDT 1996


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On Fri, 12 Jul 1996, David Mazieres wrote:

> 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.

They're paying for the call. They've got a right to know. Otherwise, you
could cause a lot of damage with a robo-dialer. It would certainly be nice
if the phone company told you about this up-front, though.

If you need it, a free anonymous re-phoner is documented at:

 http://pages.ripco.com:8080/~glr/block.html

- -rich
 http://www.c2.org/~rich/

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