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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!emory!nastar!phardie
- From: phardie@nastar.uucp (Pete Hardie)
- Subject: Re: legal question re anonymity online
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.152708.29198@nastar.uucp>
- Organization: Digital Transmission Systems, Duluth, GA.
- References: <1993Jan7.205816.26710@eff.org> <C0IBzw.MH8@world.std.com> <BZS.93Jan7212452@world.std.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:27:08 GMT
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- In article <BZS.93Jan7212452@world.std.com> bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
- >Do you expect the phone company to be liable under similar
- >circumstances? As I remember they make no guarantees for unlisted
- >numbers nor accept any liability, they merely offer them as a service
- >in the most superficial manner and under the stated conditions and
- >should there be a problem generally limit their responsibility to
- >giving you a new unlisted number.
-
- This brings up a question of mine.
-
- Suppose I choose to have an unlisted phone number. The phone company (TPC)
- charges me a monthly fee for this. Now Caller-Id is available in this area,
- and I call someone who has this, and they get my number, without my knowing
- they could.
-
- Does this violate the unlisted number 'contract', since TPC itself released
- my number to a third party w/o my consent? Or does 'unlisted' simply mean
- 'we won't print it in OUR phone book, or let OUR operators give it out, but
- anyone else can'?
-
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