[VoIP] Setting CID in *

[Mark Rudholm]

Doug Alderdice wrote:
> 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.

The set of people who would do rude things like that are probably
the same set of people who wouldn't bother to voluntarily identify
themselves (which is what CID amounts to), as your experience bears
out.  A more effective approach would seem to be to block the
offending IP address(es).