Re: Overheard on the scanner

In article <JaGdnTNEfOBJVoXVnZ2dnUVZ_qbinZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
David Harmon  <bad@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:22:27 GMT in rec.arts.sf.fandom,
>djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote,
>>Around here the 911 system will note the caller's phone number
>>and, if possible, find out the location from that.  Still, if he
>>has Caller ID Blocked (as so many in California do) or is on his
>>cell phone, that's not gonna help.
>
>The 911 system uses ANI billing system information which is separate
>from Caller ID and is never blocked, even if Caller ID is blocked.
>
>So also do 800 tollfree numbers that log caller info.

Ah, yes.

This happened a good many years ago and I needn't give any names.
There was a small business which got a lot of its trade (the Web
being then in its infancy) from its 800 number.  One of its
employees was fired, and being in a sulking mood he started
making harrassing supposedly-anonymous phone calls to the 800
number.  It was only later that he realized that he was leaving
his identity with every call.  I don't know if the company
prosecuted.  Perhaps they only had a lawyer inform him "Cease and
desist or we'll boot your arse into jail so fast they'll have to
send the rest of you along by UPS."

Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]