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- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 00:07:05 EST
- From: Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Pennsylvania Judge Bashing
- Message-ID: <telecom12.921.10@eecs.nwu.edu>
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 921, Message 10 of 10
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- > [Moderator's Note: We seem to be getting some out of LATA Caller ID
- > messages here now also. Not many yet, but more than this time last
- > year. Remember the judge in Pennsylvania, who in his wisdom declared
- > Caller ID was an 'illegal trap and trace device'? I wonder if he'll be
- > getting after us here in Chicago once SS-7 makes delivery of caller
- > numbers from Pennsylvania to us a reality? :) PAT]
-
- > [Moderator's Note: Caller-ID is considered an Evil and Bad Thing in
- > PA. A judge there ruled that Socially Responsible people would not use
- > it since it is 'an illegal tap and trace' device. There are devices to
- > do what you want and various software programs as well, but if you are
- > in PA, you can forget it. What do PA and CA have in common? I'll let
- > John H. respond to that.
-
- Come off it, PAT. Judge Schnierle looked at the Pennsylvania law and
- wrote a decision based on it. The law is clear as day: Caller*ID is
- not legal in PA. Bell of PA proposed an ingenious misreading of the
- wording that the judge had to point out. Two PUC commissioners wished
- it were not so, and overrode his decision. Higher courts, in *their*
- wisdom, decided that the law, rather than the wishes of the
- commissioners, is what counts.
-
- Whatever you or I or anyone else thinks of the state law, it is a
- matter for the appropriate legislature to change the law, not for a
- PUC to pretend it doesn't say what it says. Leave the messenger
- alone!
-
-
- Tony H.
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: Well, I think his role was a wee bit more than just
- that of a messenger ... but that is obviously a subjetive decision on
- my part. Happy holidays to one and all from TELECOM Digest! PAT]
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