Hi Nigel (Nigel Goodwin), in on Dec 21 you wrote: > I was told recently by a guy who has subscribed to cable purely to get > their telephone service (he's since cancelled the cable TV, but kept the > phone) that this particular company have a scheme whereby the phone > won't accept calls from numbers with caller ID turned off. I tried > dialing his number with caller ID disabled and you get a recorded > announcement that 'this number will not accept numbers with caller ID > disabled'. How about international calls? They don't carry an ID either.