Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!midway!gargoyle!ddsw1!zane From: zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Post Office plans to sell address databases. Message-ID: <1990Dec16.180517.13907@ddsw1.MCS.COM> Date: 16 Dec 90 18:05:17 GMT References: <12972@milton.u.washington.edu> Reply-To: zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh) Distribution: comp Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Wheeling, IL Lines: 22 In article abrams@cs.columbia.edu (Steven Abrams) writes: >In article <12972@milton.u.washington.edu> >cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson) writes: >>Today's WALL STREET JOURNAL carries an alarming story about U.S. Post >>Office plans to begin selling a national address directory. At first, >>only addresses will be available. However, there are plans afoot to >>add names at some later date. > >I am missing part of the big problem here. The phone company has been >making money with a "database" of phone numbers on a regional basis >for years. In fact, it costs you money to be left out of their >database. Are we, the supporters of the electronic frontier, the age It costs you money to be IN the database. It costs more to have both a phone line and NOT be in the database. -- zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM