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From: new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New)
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Subject: Re: Phone privacy question.
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Date: 4 Jan 91 20:41:07 GMT
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In article <13769@milton.u.washington.edu> cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson) writes:
>The Caller ID controversy has prompted the telephone companies to come
>forth with another claim, i.e., that telephone _numbers_, if not names
>and addresses, are their property.  

No problem. Who owns the association between a particular name and a 
particular number?  I would say the customer, since she/he paid for it.
Hence, selling mailing lists would be ungood.         -- Darren

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