Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.PCS 1/10/84; site mtgzz.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!mtuxo!mtgzz!ecl From: ecl@mtgzz.UUCP (e.c.leeper) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Telephone mailing lists Message-ID: <1401@mtgzz.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 11:44:39 EST Article-I.D.: mtgzz.1401 Posted: Mon Nov 11 11:44:39 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Nov-85 04:37:49 EST References: <1042@mtuxo.UUCP> <504@ittvax.ATC.ITT.UUCP> <1971@bmcg.UUCP> <10903@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1979@bmcg.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Labs, Middletown NJ Lines: 15 Cc: ecl > I have the right to call any telephone number in the phone book. (That's > why their is a phone book). You have the right to hang up on me. If you > don't want your privacy invaded, a. Dont have a phone b. Unplug it when you > don't use it. As for the idea that because there is a phone book, you have the right to interrupt me whenever you want, that's like saying that because I am walking down a public street, you have the right to stop me and refuse to let me pass until you've given me your spiel. Both are bunk! (The other (often-suggested) solution is to have an unlisted phone number. This doesn't work--many companies just dial sequentially.) Evelyn C. Leeper ...ihnp4!mtgzz!ecl