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- From: swinokur@cellar.org (Steve Winokur)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Caller ID follies
- Message-ID: <5Ve3TB1w164w@cellar.org>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 08:03:15 GMT
- Sender: bbs@cellar.org (The Cellar BBS)
- Organization: The Cellar BBS and public access system
- Lines: 35
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- I (IMHO) think that the point is being missed here. It's not that people
- call from different locations.
-
- It's that some (creepy) users try to call several times from the same
- location.
-
- Also; have you considered the fact that the _phone_company_ knows who's
- calling who all the time? Shouldn't the people who *pay* for the service
- have the right to know who is "knocking at the door" so to speak?
-
- I mean, besides automated sales-machines, obscene phone-callers, and the
- like -- and their lobby has probably been putting money into the
- anti-caller-id adverts :).
-
- Not beind *allowed* (I'm from Pennsylvania, where they didn't let callerID
- happen) to find out who's calling is a continuation of the "victimization"
- of consumers that I see.
-
- Example off the top of my head: We pay HUGE health insurace fees -- but
- who gets to cope with the annoying paperwork; making sure that >they< know
- what's going on; all that crud? The consumer.
-
- The thing about Caller-ID is that if you are one of the 99% of people on
- BBS's that are not abusing the privlages - there's nothing to worry about.
- But it does give some small measure of protection against the 1% of people
- out there who have a phone, a modem, and a compulsion to act creepy.
-
- -steve
-
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