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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!news.ans.net!cmcl2!panix!eck
- From: eck@panix.com (Mark Eckenwiler)
- Subject: Re: Telephone Aswering Machine
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.143258.16858@panix.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 14:32:58 GMT
- Distribution: usa
- References: <l6lvm0INNst1@nunki.usc.edu> <1992Jul23.022321.8997@unislc.uucp>
- Organization: Culturale Elit
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- In <1992Jul23.022321.8997@unislc.uucp>, dw@unislc.uucp sez:
- >rmakarem@usc.edu (Total Stranger) writes:
- >: Now I am in the market for an answering machine, and I need
- >: recommendations.
- >
- >I buy the answering service from the local phone company.
- >
- >The phone company keeps a digital recording of your
- >"greeting" which you can modify any time. Your messages
- >are also recorded digitally on some hard disk at the phone
- >company.
-
- The considerable privacy concerns implicated in this setup have been
- discussed at length in comp.risks (among other newsgroups), so I won't
- repeat all of them here.
-
- Anyone familiar with the comp.dcom.telecom flap last year -- a phone
- company employee posted privileged information about a business
- customer -- may be more than a little uneasy at the idea of giving the
- entire phone company easier access to private messages.
-
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