Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!ut-sally!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Junk Phone Calls, Credit Card Solicitations,& Other Pet Peeves Message-ID: <202@opus.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Mar-84 19:43:48 EST Article-I.D.: opus.202 Posted: Wed Mar 7 19:43:48 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Mar-84 01:02:39 EST References: <144@whuxj.UUCP> Organization: NBI, Boulder Lines: 16 <> > By the way, if you are served by a stored program control switching office, > your phone company provides you with a way (for about $2.00 a month extra in > New Jersey) to prevent those autodialing machines from locking up your phone > line in an emergency - just order 3-way calling. It can also be useful to > bridge the police onto an obscene or threatening call., ...which is a nice facility to have from your local phone company, BUT I think most of us that are complaining about junk phone calls want is (1) not to have our privacy invaded and (2) not to have to pay for this basic freedom, nor continually reestablish it. (I'm not saying that the onus is on the phone company for this - it isn't.) It should be a matter of "business ethics" (if that's meaningful in general) not to bother people with junk phone calls. -- {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd