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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Path: sparky!uunet!tronsbox!dfrancis
- From: dfrancis@tronsbox.xei.com (Dennis Heffernan)
- Subject: Re: New Supra Chipset:Caller ID:Condoms
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.143240.17188@tronsbox.xei.com>
- Organization: Xanadu Enterprises Inc.
- References: <Bx63p4.F9r@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Nov4.175927.18434@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com> <Bx7rqx.M9z@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 14:32:40 GMT
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- In article <Bx7rqx.M9z@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jason Balicki (KodaK)) writes:
- |I didn't say I didn't trust the sysop. I merely stated that caller ID
- |is an invasion of privicy. As a matter of fact, the private bbs isn't
- |what I'm concerned about (mostly). It's the online services -- Genie, Portal,
- |Compuserve etc. So some other company needs the names of Amiga owners
- |for a phone ad campaign. Well, x-service has caller ID, let's ask them!
-
- What, are you stupid or something?
-
- Commercial services ASK for your phone number when you sign up,
- remember? GEnie and QuantumLink both called me to tell me my account was
- active! IE, they already KNOW your phone number and don't need Caller ID to
- find it.
-
- On top of that, if I wanted to target an ad campaign at Amiga owners,
- the last place I'd call is a commercial telecom service! I'd call one of
- the many professional targetted-marketing agencies. They have your phone
- number, too...whether or not you gave it to them.
-
-
- Dennis F. Heffernan dfrancis@tronsbox.xei.com e4461005@apollo.montclair.edu
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- "I don't understand why you make such a big deal out of everything...haven't
- you learned; if it's not happenning to me it's not important?" -Murphy Brown
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