A user of a multiappearance telephone can activate Privacy - Manual Exclusion to keep the participants with appearance of the same extension from bridging on to an existing call. To use manual exclusion, the user presses the exclusion button, either before the user places the call, or when the user is active on the call. If the user presses the exclusion button while others are bridged onto the call, the system drops the other users. To turn off manual exclusion, the user presses the exclusion button.