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- From: Terry.Parks@launchpad.unc.edu (Terry Parks)
- Subject: Re: Anti-privacy is Anti-Caller ID)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.020954.784@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:09:54 GMT
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- >do you let your daughter peep through the hole first?
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- Hard to do if the anti-privacy types keep painting it over.
-
- >maybe its a flasher.
-
- Then all the more reason for their identity to be exposed before they
- can get into my home.
-
- >the peephole is more like picking up the receiver and listening for heavy
- >breathing.
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- No, this is like openning the door--something required due to you peep hole
- painters.
-
- >the knock on the door is like the ring on the phone
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- And Caller ID is like looking through the peep hole before opening the door.
-
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- >>You have this right regardless of Caller ID. If you wish to remain private,
- >>simply choose not to call me, period!
-
- >Who cares about calling YOU??
-
- Thank you for admitting that Caller ID has nothing to do with the privacy
- of the caller. Be private, don't call me or anyone else.
-
- >its the influx of new businesses that then
- >can tap into our personal information
-
- 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!
-
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