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From: westmark!dave@uunet.uu.net (Dave Levenson)
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Subject: Re: Criticism of Call Forwarding
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Date: 3 Oct 89 03:14:09 GMT
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In article , asa@stl-07sima.army.mil
(Will Martin on 7000) writes:
 ...
> And, as a side question: I seem to recall this being asked during the
> "Caller*ID" debate, but don't recall it being answered. Maybe somebody
> out there with Caller*ID can now tell us: If a call is call-forwarded to
> a phone with "Caller*ID", is the number displayed that of the forwarding
> phone or the originating one?

> If the number displayed is that of the originating phone, is there any
> heirarchy of displays -- that is, if the originating phone is out of the
> area and the number isn't available, but the number of the forwarding
> phone IS available, will the forwarding-phone's number be displayed in
> that case?

I don't know if this is true everywhere, but in New Jersey, the
Caller*Id-equipped recipient of a forwarded call gets the caller's
number, not the forwarder's number.  If the caller is "Out of Area"
then that is displayed; even if the forwarder is not.

I tried to take advantage of this a few weeks ago.  Our modems kept
getting calls from somone/something that would disconnect after
listening to our answer tone for several seconds.  These calls
always arrived two at a time, followed by two more about 30 minutes
later.  I waited until the first of a series of two arrived, and
then forwarded the modem line to our Caller*Id-equipped voice line.
But alas, when the second call arrived, the display showed "Out of
Area" (even though the forwarding was intra-office) so I still
couldn't identify the caller.  But it didn't sound like a person or
an open mic when I answered the voice line.


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