Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: "Gregory G. Woodbury" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Speech on Telephone Privacy Message-ID: <2005@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 9 Dec 89 01:18:36 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: "Gregory G. Woodbury" Organization: Wolves Den UNIX BBS Lines: 43 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 565, message 1 of 5 In article <1911@accuvax.nwu.edu> rsiatl!jgd (John G. De Armond) writes: >What I buy, where I go and who I call are strictly MY PERSONAL >BUSINESS and no one elses. The fact that you CONTRACT with the phone company for the use of their facilities says otherwise. If you operated your own telephone system between you and your friends and the social services that you want to use, then MAYBE it would be your own business (I suspect that the govt. would call it a phone company ;-) >Dammit, my phone exists for MY and my family's convenience and use. >No stranger has any more right to invade my privacy electronically >than they do barging through my front door. Not answering the phone >is NOT an answer. > Except that it is not YOUR phone service - you contract for it. >I insist, no, I demand that a ring on the phone is either someone I >want to talk to or is an emergency. All caller ID will do is allow >slime to discover my phone number more readily. This is the part of your argument that I fail to follow. CNID will allow YOU to determine if you know the party calling and accept the interruption. It would make sense for you to ask for the phone company to not implement CNID on your outgoing calls. Then, when you call someone as insistent as you are about your right to remain unidentified, that person can ignore the call because the calling party chose to not identify itself. The phone companies are BUSINESSES. Due to the common opinion that phone service is a RIGHT (its really a purchased service), the government decided early to regulate it. Gregory G. Woodbury Sysop/owner Wolves Den UNIX BBS, Durham NC UUCP: ...dukcds!wolves!ggw ...dukeac!wolves!ggw [use the maps!] Domain: ggw@cds.duke.edu ggw@ac.duke.edu ggw%wolves@ac.duke.edu Phone: +1 919 493 1998 (Home) +1 919 684 6126 (Work) [The line eater is a boojum snark! ]