Folk, the Caller-ID thread is bogus.
There is no point in forging Caller-ID in order to fool marketers or the
like. They do not use caller-ID, they never have. The marketers have always
used AID which like Caller-ID provides the source of the call, unlike
Caller-ID it cannot be blocked, you do have to have a direct trunk
connection however and you have to do some translation to get a telephone
number from the line id.
What I find bizare however is the number of times you come across a customer
service tree that forces you to enter your account number and then when you
finally get through to a human they ask you for the same information. Like
why do companies buy equipement that tells each of their customers that they
are incompetent idiots?
Phill