Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: asg@space.mit.edu (Sergei A. Gourevitch) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Caller ID Privacy Question Message-ID: Date: 11 Sep 89 14:12:28 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 17 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 368, message 9 of 11 I think that some of the controversy is due to the different nature of the calls which people are envisioning. I can see that if a person is sitting at home and calling a large organization (the IRS? (:- ) one wants his privacy protected. But, damnit, if you're calling me at home it's my privacy that's paramount (ask anybody with small children whose phone rings while the kids are being tended to). If you won't let me know who you are, and that includes your number, I don't want to be bothered. Also: How come the law allows me to tell the Post Office that I don't want junk mail but I can't tell the Phone Company I don't want junk phone calls (Telemarketers) ? Sergei A. Gourevitch MIT Center for Space Research Inet: asg@space.mit.edu Cambridge, MA 02139 UUCP: !mit-eddie!mit-space!asg +1 617 253 8208