Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!ihlpl!res From: res@ihlpl.UUCP (Rich Strebendt @ AT&T Information Systems - Indian Hill West; formerly) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Telephone mailing lists Message-ID: <404@ihlpl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 20:11:50 EST Article-I.D.: ihlpl.404 Posted: Mon Nov 11 20:11:50 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Nov-85 06:21:10 EST References: <1042@mtuxo.UUCP> <504@ittvax.ATC.ITT.UUCP> <1971@bmcg.UUCP> <10903@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1979@bmcg.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 29 > > >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 ...!ihnp4!iwsl6!res