Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site sdcc13.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!qantel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!sdcc3!sdcc13!kemasa From: kemasa@sdcc13.UUCP (kemasa) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Telephone mailing lists Message-ID: <356@sdcc13.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 23:58:16 EST Article-I.D.: sdcc13.356 Posted: Thu Nov 7 23:58:16 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Nov-85 05:52:32 EST References: <1042@mtuxo.UUCP> <504@ittvax.ATC.ITT.UUCP> <1971@bmcg.UUCP> <10903@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1979@bmcg.UUCP> Reply-To: kemasa@sdcc13.UUCP (kemasa) Organization: U.C. San Diego, Academic Computer Center Lines: 23 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 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? 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. 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 there for people to knock on? and that you should seal it up if you don't want salemen to come? It is easy to put a sign 'no salemem' or something like that, but with the phone they say you can have it excluded from the reverse index, but police and fire depts. use it. So what do you do. I don't think the solution is to do without because of abuse by others. Kemasa.