[VoIP] Setting CID in *

[Doug Alderdice]

At 07:55 PM 8/18/2007 +0100, Jon Kay wrote:
>Good manners perhaps. But honestly, /who cares/?

Those of us who have been subjected to abuse of our systems do care.  John 
N. had the caller(s) that would ring up his lines and let them ring for 
hours, I've had several instances of people ringing live answer lines in 
the middle of the night.  Perhaps John and I are the only ones who like to 
have a handle on who's poking around in our systems.

>I certainly don't scrutinize the csv logs every day, when I last looked,
>"Fred Flinstone" at "Bedrock 123" had called along with Barney Rubble.
>/I kid you not/.  They did have rotary phones in the cartoon I think, so
>perhaps that makes sense?
>  My CID is only set to the country/office code, so maybe I should have
>my wrists slapped ;)

No, your name is in the field as well.  I guess I should have said 
"something positively identifiable."

>Did Caller ID even exist in the EM era? Certainly not in the UK. I know
>you guys had ANI & CAMA, so I suppose the line number needed to get
>passed to the toll centre. How did SXS offices manage to do this?

I leave that answer to those who worked with those systems.


>Best wishes
>Jon (In Orlando next week)

Have fun!!  Say hello to Mickey from the CNET crew...


Doug.