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From: res@ihlpl.UUCP (Rich Strebendt @ AT&T Information Systems - Indian Hill West; formerly)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Telephone mailing lists
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Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 20:11:50 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 11 20:11:50 1985
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> > >Thank you very much. My wife works night about three times a week.
> > >When she doesn't she does telephone surveys for a marketing research
> > >company. 
> >
> > But, still, what makes you apparently believe that you have the RIGHT to
> > intrude, uninvited, upon people in their homes?  
> 
> I have the right to call any telephone number in the phone book. (That's 
> why their is a phone book). 

BULLSHIT!!! I have a phone so that I can call people and businesses I
need to contact (such as relatives and department stores), and to
receive calls from people who need to contact me on business in which I
am interested (such as information that my order has arrived at Sears,
or that a friend is inviting us to dinner).  I do not have one so that
any clown in the country can call me at three in the morning to shout
obscenities at me, or so that a telephone sales person can offer me
such a deal for a product that I have no interest in.  Both of these
latter cases are examples of unwanted intrusion into my home.  

> 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.

This is like suggesting that if I don't want my home burglarized I
should not have doors in the home.  Double bullshit.

					Rich Strebendt
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