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From: jon@isrnix.UUCP (Jon Bayh)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Phone Phlames
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Date: Sun, 8-Apr-84 14:36:13 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr  8 14:36:13 1984
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	I am not so concerned about devices that handle an incoming call
ungracefully as I am in the incoming calls themselves.  Unlike most systems,
Unix systems are tolerant of hangups.
	What does concern me is the inherent rudeness of blanket calling---
the theory that the called person has nothing better to do than listen to the
spiel of the caller.  During a recent mayoral election in this town I was
called twice by the Republican party and >five< times by the Democratic party.
Four of those calls logged me off the system I was using.  That sort of
irritation is very likely to have the opposite effect than that desired on
the called party.
	Hopefully, when a rational, high-tech phone system is finally 
developed, there will be at least two classifications of callers---those
who make unsolicited advertising calls, and everyone else.  And the phone
owner will have the option of rejecting blanket callers.  Mine will be
permanently in reject mode.
					!isrnix!jon
					Jon Bayh