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From: bobn@bmcg.UUCP (Bob Nebert)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Telephone mailing lists
Message-ID: <1981@bmcg.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 8-Nov-85 13:45:25 EST
Article-I.D.: bmcg.1981
Posted: Fri Nov  8 13:45:25 1985
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> In article <1979@bmcg.UUCP> bobn@bmcg.UUCP (Bob Nebert) writes:
> >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.
> 
> You have to right to call any number?  I think there is a law againest prank
> phone calls.  Is it absurd to say unplug it or don't have a phone.  It

Wait a minute!!!! I did not say anything about prank phone calls. What I said
was that I can dial any number in the phone book and say Hello.

> is for calling for emergency and other such things.  How would you like
> it to have everyone on the net calling you every hour so that no one else
> could get a hold of you in case of emergency because you unplugged it?

If you value your privacy THAT much get a unlisted phone number. Or if 
you are economy minded (cheap) dont, but list the name in the phone book
as someone else.

> I don't care about junk mail, but junk phone calls bother me, especially
> when they don't use real people to and use computers or recorded messages.

I'm not talking about computer or recorded messages.

> The phone book is to find the number of someone you want to talk to, not
> to try to sell strangers things.  Does that also mean that your door is

The solicitor wanted to talk to you so they used the phone book.