Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 09:52:53 +0100 (CET) From: hm@kts.org (Hellmuth Michaelis) To: leif@neland.dk (Leif Neland) Cc: freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: logging incoming calls Message-ID: <19991220085253.D95BC17E5@bert.kts.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912170438300.38053-100000@arnold.neland.dk> from Leif Neland at "Dec 17, 1999 4:40: 9 am"
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Leif Neland wrote: > > PS I've heard some countries allow an ID Suppressed By Caller facility, > > it'd be cute if i4b could display a "Suppressed By Caller" rather than the > > usual "NotAvailable" for such cases, or maybe it does already ? > > If so, I'd like to make the machine hangup the connection after scolding > the caller for being so rude as to hide the number... There are valid reasons - even for normal human beings - to suppress one's caller id. Consider the following (which occurs frequently here): a technican is calling a customer from home - in case you _don't_ suppress your caller id then, the customer has your home number and you can be shure that from then on he will call you at home if he has problems, no matter if it is weekends, holidays or at 2 o'clock in the night (now don't misunderstand me here, my customers have my private telephone number ... ;-) ). There are several other scenarios where it is acceptable and necessary to suppress your caller id for privacy reasons. It has nothing to do with being rude IMHO. Other than that, here in Germany, calls from analog phones have their caller id suppressed unless the person owning the analog phone has explicitely asked for enabling the transmission of his caller id. As a result, most of the calls from analog phones don't have a caller id here. hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis hm@kts.org Hamburg, Europe We all live in a yellow subroutine, yellow subroutine, yellow subroutine ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message
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