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From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: 800 number to turn off junk calls
Message-ID: <952@pyuxa.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 14-Aug-84 08:14:14 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 14 08:14:14 1984
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I just saw an ad for a gadget that will solve all of your junk call
problems.  It is something called a Phone Censor.  It will screen
all calls and only let those through that have input a special
code.  The small unit costs around $50 bucks and allows you to
program 4 codes.  A larger unit allows up to 16 codes.  Here is how
it works.  A call comes in.  The unit intercepts and asks for the
code.  The person calling then must enter the correct code by
either dialing or push-buttoning.  If the code is correct, the
phone rings.  If it is a wrong code, Bye-Bye.  You can give out
the special codes to those you may want to call.  Another feature
is that there is a different ring tone for each code so that you
will know who is calling.  (Is this getting into ESP again?).
The larger unit has a digital display of the code plus the
identifying tones.  Clever, what?
T. C. Wheeler