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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: alt.privacy,comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Caller ID problems
Message-ID: <1991Apr1.030309.17616@alphalpha.com>
Date: 1 Apr 91 03:03:09 GMT
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In article <6NT2T1F@taronga.hackercorp.com> peter@taronga.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>The sales droid then finds out that he's losing customers to word-of-mouth,
Word-of-mouth only works when you have a community.  The traditional community is
gone and the electronic one is not yet widespread enough to replace it.
Frankly I think this is one of the most important reasons for expanding the
electronic frontier - it's one of the reasons why I spend five or six hundred
dollars a year running a BBS.

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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.