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Re: [hylafax-users] Caller ID



On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 05:31:44PM +0100, Midshire Veterinary wrote:
> I am looking at using Hylafax for our incoming fax handling, and I want to be
> able to look at the caller ID phone number to determine where a fax has come
> from in the event that the CSID information is left blank or set to 'Fax
> message' or one of the other 'standard' CSIDs that some people seem to use.

Since Lee gave you a *productive* answer (:-), I will simply note that
the standard thing to call that datum is "TSI" for, I think, Terminal
Station Identifier.

"CSID" is a bit too close to "CNID", which is Bell-speak for Calling
Number Identification; what most people call "Caller ID".

Cheers,
- jra
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