In message <9712221521.AA01de9@aargh.mayn.de>, Marc Heuler writes >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. Good question?. I've no idea, but do International calls have an ID identifying themselves as International calls. I mention this because BSkyB (the UK satellite TV service) will only supply access cards to UK addresses (a requirement forced on them by the American copyright holders), and if you ring them from abroad they know you are outside the UK - and therefore 'kill' your card. Quite a few cards are used in Spain, quite a lot of British people now live there, and get friends to post their cards out. Anyway, I never get international calls, so it wouldn't bother me :-). -- Nigel. /--------------------------------------------------------------\ | Nigel Goodwin | Internet : nigelg@lpilsley.demon.co.uk | | Lower Pilsley | Web Page : http://www.lpilsley.demon.co.uk | | Chesterfield | | | England | | \--------------------------------------------------------------/