Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: ficc!peter@uunet.uu.net Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Caller*ID and Modems Message-ID:Date: 25 Sep 89 09:15:15 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 10 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 408, message 7 of 9 Here's a product I'd pay money for in a couple of years, a modem that prints the message "RING 7135551212" when the phone rings with caller*ID information. Not only would it save me buying an extra box for the phone, but it'd make things a lot easier for hobby BBS operators to shut out bad guys. Plus, folks like osu-cis who support anonymous-uucp would be able to track all the folks who call them... more anon-uucp sites would be showing up. I hope Hayes or someone is working on this, but just in case they're not this idea is hereby in the public domain :->.