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- From: palmer@icat.larc.nasa.gov (Michael T. Palmer)
- Newsgroups: alt.privacy
- Subject: Re: Anti-privacy is Anti-Caller ID)
- Date: 27 Jan 93 17:33:16 GMT
- Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA USA
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- References: <1993Jan26.004754.29190@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1993Jan26.151341.2329@ll.mit.edu> <1993Jan27.020954.784@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1993Jan27.155108.26036@ll.mit.edu>
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- nates@ll.mit.edu ( Nate Smith) writes:
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- >In article <1993Jan27.020954.784@samba.oit.unc.edu> Terry.Parks@launchpad.unc.edu (Terry Parks) writes:
-
- >>Hey Rip, wake up! This is done regardless of Caller ID. Except that with
- >>Caller ID, one can render such information useless. If you want to be
- >>private, don't call me!
-
- >ahah - you think that Step 1 of Caller ID has already been accomplished.
- >this means you are a clone of Glenn Cooley. Step 1 has been done in the
- >areas that already have Caller ID, and the 1-800, 1-900, 1-976 exchanges.
-
- Aha! So I'm not the only one who recognizes the reincarnation of Glenn
- Cooley. At the risk of sounding disrespectful, many of us way back decided
- that Glenn Cooley really didn't exist; rather, it was all done by glenn.c,
- which was a program that would ignore all input except certain keywords,
- which would be spit back out with a trailing message "Then don't call me!"
-
- Terry, please recognize that other people have different lifestyles than
- you do, and have more responsibilities (like kids) than you do. I, too, used
- to think that a ringing telephone has no inherent "right" to be answered.
- But now that most of my friends have children, I can see how totally wrong
- that attitude is for *them*. You never know who might honestly (and URGENTLY)
- need to get in touch with you, so Caller-ID does nothing to protect your
- privacy.
-
- Much better solutions are being proposed in this forum; why can't you
- acknowledge that at least SOME of these ideas would give you the same level
- of the kind of privacy YOU want, while protecting the kind of privacy that
- OTHERS want? I, for one, don't care if Caller-ID is implemented everywhere
- as long as free per-line blocking is available. How does this diminish the
- value of Caller-ID to you? You wouldn't answer the phone either way!
-
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- Michael T. Palmer | "A man is crazy who writes a secret in any
- m.t.palmer@larc.nasa.gov | other way than one which will conceal it
- RIPEM key on server | from the vulgar." - Roger Bacon
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