Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Caller ID Privacy Question Message-ID: Date: 12 Sep 89 19:39:53 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Joel B Levin Organization: BBN Communications Corporation Lines: 20 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 369, message 4 of 6 In article asg@space.mit.edu (Sergei A. Gourevitch) writes: |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) ? Since when? You can only tell the P.O. you don't want obscene mail. You have the same rights regarding obscene phone calls (though they may be harder to exercise). You may request the Direct Marketing Association (?) to ask their members to take you off all their lists. That is the only thing you can do about junk mail, and it is entirely voluntary. /JBL = Nets: levin@bbn.com | or {...}!bbn!levin | POTS: (617) 873-3463 |