Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxa!wetcw 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 Article-I.D.: pyuxa.952 Posted: Tue Aug 14 08:14:14 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Aug-84 01:25:40 EDT References: <2891@utah-cs.UUCP>, <5400002@hpfclp.UUCP>, <525@asgb.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 16 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