Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bmcg.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!qantel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwrba!cepu!bmcg!bobn 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 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Nov-85 05:57:41 EST References: <1042@mtuxo.UUCP> <504@ittvax.ATC.ITT.UUCP> <1971@bmcg.UUCP> <10903@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1979@bmcg.UUCP> <356@sdcc13.UUCP> Organization: Burroughs Corp. ASG, San Diego, CA. Lines: 30 > 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.