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- From: josh@Happy-Man.com (Joshua_Putnam)
- Subject: Re: CPSR & Caller ID?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.185416.17357@Happy-Man.com>
- Reply-To: Joshua_Putnam@happy-man.com
- Organization: Happy Man Corp., Vashon Island, WA 98070-7399
- References: <1992Dec14.205909.19682@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <bhayden.724495813@teal> <1992Dec17.001447.11166@uswmrg.mrg.uswest.com.mrg.uswest.com> <1992Dec17.191910.23097@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 18:54:16 GMT
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- In <1992Dec17.191910.23097@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> bobd@marune.acs.ohio-state.edu (Bob DeBula) writes:
-
- >As the purchaser of a privacy enhancing phone service option
- >(we have an unlisted number), I will be very peeved if I start
- >receiving sales calls because some marketing slime starts
- >selling my number as part of a "likely purchasers" list generated
- >from caller ID. A big part of the reason we got an unlisted number
- >was to prevent sales calls (they sometimes still happen due to
- >organizations or computered phone ads just running the gamit of
- >all possible phone numbers in a certain area).
-
- You do realize that companies with 800 numbers have been able to
- see your number all along, don't you? Unless you don't deal with
- toll-free numbers, your number is probably already on dozens of
- lists being sold at a good profit to marketers large and small.
-
- Caller-ID may give small, local businesses access to your number,
- but it won't do much for national-scale teleslime who use 800
- numbers and public documents to get your number.
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