I certainly appreciate the information. I am open to any
suggestions. Maybe AT&T has something similar.

	Some time ago I heard some fellow who had made a CD of
the games he played with telemarketers. In one, a carpet
cleaning company called and he asked if they could get blood out
of a carpet. They asked, "How much blood is it?" He said, "lots
and lots of blood. There's blood in the carpet, on the walls, on
the curtains and even some on the ceiling." The conversation
went on for quite some time.
Steve Dresser writes:
> I've never heard of a caller ID box with an RS-232 port, but some phone
> companies have a feature that might help in a different way.  Verizon 
> calls
> this feature "Privacy Manager," and it will let you build a list of 
> numbers
> you can block.  When you receive a call from a blocked number, the caller
> hears a short message to the effect that the person they are calling is 
> not
> accepting calls from their number.  Privacy Manager also handles numbers
> that block their caller ID by intercepting the call and giving you the
> option to connect to the call, send the caller to voice mail, or play a
> message telling the caller not to call again.  I realize that this isn't 
> the
> solution you were looking for, but it has been quite effective for getting
> rid of unwanted callers.