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- From: vporguen@unlinfo.unl.edu (victor porguen)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Caller ID block?
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 05:38:26 GMT
- Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
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- Writes curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch):
-
- > Why are you so scared ...etc.? Did your parents beat you with a
- > phone.... etc.? Or is it just the thought of having a stranger
- > call you that scares you ...etc.? You really should work on
- > overcoming your fears.
-
- I had no fears when I posted my response, but I am beginning to have
- some, now that I read yours. My post was strictly *apersonal*, and
- referred to the Caller ID problem that the Telephone Companies have
- unleashed on the public.
-
- Your reply, however, is directed mainly at my person, rather than my
- ideas. You demean yourself (and your organization) by replying this
- way.
-
- As I said before, the problem with Caller ID is not that it tells
- others who you are, but that it allows others to call when you never
- intended to allow that to happen.
-
- Caller ID is strictly a revenue-producing scheme for the Telephone
- Companies - it either serves no *demonstrable* need or, if it serves
- any purpose at all, it does so at the extremely high cost of violating
-
- people's privacy. This leaves the Telephone Companies totally
- unconcerned.
-
- When you publish your telephone number, you are ASKING to be called.
- By anyone.
-
- When you DON'T publish your telephone number, you are saying you
- DON'T WANT to be called. By anyone except those you want.
-
- You even paid the Telephone Company for the privilege.
-
- Now the Telephone Companies are offering to the public the privilege
- of bypassing (AT A PRICE!) that privacy you are paying them for, and
- simultaneously they are telling subscribers that they must pay still
- more to maintain the privacy they paid for in the first place!
-
- In this Caller ID matter, no matter who you are nor which way you
- turn, you end up paying more - to the Telephone Company!
-
- Sure, money has nothing to do with it. It's a social service, right?
-
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