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From: dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (David Tamkin)
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Subject: Re: Response to International Calling Redlining
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Date: 20 Oct 90 19:41:35 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 748, Message 1 of 9


Jeff Sicherman wrote in volume 10, issue 728:

|   PAT missed the point entirely. IF depriving somebody of the rightful
| and reasonable use of their property/service is illegal (there is such
| a thing as telephone harassment, but I don't know if there is, either
| explicitly or implicitly, an email equivalent - is the medium
| critical?)  then a GROUP of people planning to do something WITH SUCH
| INTENT is a type of conspiracy. Remember, the original discussions
| suggested how neat it would be to overwhelm these people with email
| messages.  How would you construe the meaning/intent of that ?

Mr. Sicherman, you overlook one difference between the telephone and
email: if you are bombarded with incoming telephone calls, you cannot
use your phone for outgoing calls, nor can you receive desired
incoming calls, so indeed you have been deprived of a service you are
paying for.

But if you are bombarded with email, your outgoing email can still get
out and your desired incoming email (at least on a large commercial
system like MCI Mail or AT&T Mail, where storage space is not a
factor) still reaches you.  You may be exasperated, annoyed, angered,
or incensed, but you have not been deprived of email service.

If you wish to bombard me, kindly do it on GEnie or MCI Mail; at my
accounts on local pubnet sites, storage limitation *is* a factor.


David Tamkin  Box 7002  Des Plaines IL  60018-7002  708 518 6769  312 693 0591
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