From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Thu Jul 18 2002 - 13:32:58 MDT
From: Harvey Newstrom <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com>
>>Brian D Williams wrote:
>>A group of women's groups lobbied successfully to force us to
>>offer a blocking feature so that estranged wives could call
>>their former homes and talk with their children without the
>>former husbands being able to deduce their location. People who
>>had unlisted numbers also desired this feature.
>I remember many different privacy groups being concerned about
>caller-ID and demanding a blocking feature. Why do you attribute
>this primarily to women?
This was the specific reason cited by the Illinois Commerce
Commission in their decision.
Brian
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