Is Anonymous Communication only for "Criminals"?

Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM dlv at bwalk.dm.com
Sat Dec 20 21:26:59 PST 1997



bureau42 Anonymous Remailer <nobody at 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







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