On 26 Mar 98 12:26pm, JOE KOVACS wrote to WALTER LUFFMAN:
 JK> These days, when you phone a tech support or 
 JK> sales person, their 'puter displays your 
 JK> name, phone number and address as they say 
 JK> Hello, before you've said anything.  It gets 
 JK> this information using Caller ID, basically 
 JK> from those phone number directory CDs.
Not necessarily.  There was ANI long before there was CID; and ANI
works over long-distance lines, where CID might not.
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