I was really pleased to see Amine, Riggio, and Hill's article ``Caller ID Goes to Work'' (January). As system operator of an amateur BBS, the security issues you mention in the article are very important to me. On my system, I compare the number that a user enters with the number received from Caller ID to give me an idea about the new user's behavior.
The article also points out that Australia, Israel, the U.K., France, and Holland have announced that they will implement Caller ID in the near future. However, you have missed a country--Turkey. Caller ID has been in use in Turkey for about 9 months. Currently, it is implemented mostly in big cities, such as Istanbul and Ankara. The system is still being tested but will be in use in Turkey before the second half of this year.
A. Akin Koksal
Istanbul, Turkey
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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