Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!bionet!ames!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: inco!newman@uunet.uu.net (Bo Newman) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Can We Outlaw Junk Calls? Message-ID: Date: 7 Sep 89 16:16:59 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: McDonnell Douglas Electronic Systems, McLean, VA Lines: 22 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 357, message 10 of 12 My regrets to the regular sane readers of and posters to this news.group. To the poster who wants to legislate the use of the telephone (10 calls per day e.t.c): My suggestion, and it is a sure fire -) one, is to buy two items. First a celluar phone, one of the portable ones you can take anywhere. The second is a small inflatable raft. Now the procedure for eliminating all ^JUNK CALLS^ to you. Inflate the raft, place the celluar phone in it, get in a paddle FAR OUT TO SEA (at least 100 Miles). Turn off the phone, and PULL THE CORK ON THE RAFT. That would accomplish two things, it would totally eliminate any chance of you being bothered by ^JUNK CALLS^ and second (and of far greater value to the free world) it would eliminate another irrational, isolationist, closed minded voice trying to freeze progress (and far trade) because it is i n c o n v e n i e n t ! (But then that could apply to just about any form of human contact if you really work at it.) ***** Disclaimer ? you bet, all of them. I got hot, I'll cool off, no one else need apply.