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I don't understand the philosophy behind allowing someone to call me and hide their phone number and identify. Someone is allowed to call me and hide who they are until I answer. If someone comes to my door, at least I can look out the window and see them before opening the door.
If they don't want to give up their phone number (though obviously they have mine) then their name should be revealed on my caller id. Why should the caller be allowed to intrude on my privacy without first identifying themselves?
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Re: Private or No Caller ID?
Another example is when people are calling from someone else's phone they may not want that person's or business's name and number to be displayed.
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Re: Private or No Caller ID?
When caller ID came around, I remember one of the justifications for blocking it was for calls placed from domestic violence shelters. That doesn't seem unreasonable to me, but it is certainly a very limited situation.
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Re: Private or No Caller ID?
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I really think you are over reacting to the situation.
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Well, first of all, I was just grousing over the situation and not loudly shouting. I admit the level of reaction is sometimes difficult to guage in a thread.
There have been good reasons given for having private calls, and I don't disagree with those given. I can accept those, but I don't accept the "it was that way before caller id" reason. As technology changes so do expectations.
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You say "If someone comes to my door, at least I can look out the window and see them before opening the door." Well what if you look out the window and you see someone you've never seen before? Same difference with the caller ID.
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I do concede there is some need for private numbers. I don't think your analogy applies. If I can look out the window and see someone I don't know, I usually get some information. It's usually obvious if the person wants to sell me something or is taking a survey or something like that. There is some information. On a blocked phone number there is none.
I concede that the needs of the few (or the many), outweigh the needs of a crotchety old man
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It comes down to many people feel the need to answer the phone when it rings.
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Yes, I am guilty of that.
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If I see the Prompt "Unknown Caller", "Out of Area Call", Private Caller" "Toll-Free Number" or an Area Code that I do not recognise as being one where I know someone I do what I call "The Two-Fingered Salute". I pick up the receiver, then press, in rapid succession "Talk" & "End"!
I have better thing to do than listen to a Telemarketer's Pitch.
In the days before the Florida Primary I received so many calls from Politicion's "Robo=Calls" I took my phone off the hook so I could have PEACE AND QUIET! I will probably do the same this Autumn!
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I never answer the phone in my house - I leave that to the "trunk monkeys" aka my kids to handle. I tend to agree with Johhny's initial point but do see that there are reasonable circumstances for this. I just think that the occurence of the unreasonable ones far outweighs the reasonable cases......which puts me in the "crotchety old man" club!
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which puts me in the "crotchety old man" club!
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Welcome to the club...except I'd never be a member of a club that'd have me for a member
With apologies to Groucho.
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We get our TV, Internet & phone through the same company. One of the cool features is the caller id shows up in the upper right corner of the TV. This way when watching a show and the phone rings, we can tell who it is and decide if it is worth answering.
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I'm not getting our services that way, but my DTV HR20 does the same thing and displays the caller id on our tv.
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