Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxi.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!ihuxi!snafu From: snafu@ihuxi.UUCP (Dave Wallis) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: 800 number to turn off junk calls Message-ID: <1024@ihuxi.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Aug-84 09:09:03 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxi.1024 Posted: Wed Aug 15 09:09:03 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Aug-84 01:27:02 EDT References: <2891@utah-cs.UUCP>, <5400002@hpfclp.UUCP>, <525@asgb.UUCP> <952@pyuxa.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Network Systems, Inc., Naperville Il. Lines: 30 > 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 Sounds like a good idea, but it has one very major drawback. There are people who would not have the code that I would certainly like to receive calls from. For instance, if my wife has been hit by a car and the police call to let me know, I would surely be upset if the phone hung itself up without letting me know! -- Dave Wallis ihnp4!ihuxi!snafu AT&T Network Systems, Inc. (312) 979-5894