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From: bobn@bmcg.UUCP (Bob Nebert)
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Subject: Re: Telephone mailing lists
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Date: Thu, 14-Nov-85 13:25:35 EST
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> > > But, still, what makes you apparently believe that you have the RIGHT to
> > > intrude, uninvited, upon people in their homes?  
> > 
> > I have the right to call any telephone number in the phone book. (That's 
> > why their is a phone book). 
> 
> BULLSHIT!!! I have a phone so that I can call people and businesses I
> need to contact (such as relatives and department stores), and to

Okay, so far so good. Remember now that the solicitors have phones so that
they can call people that they need to contact. (If it's a valid reason
for you it's a valid reason for them).

> receive calls from people who need to contact me on business in which I
> am interested (such as information that my order has arrived at Sears,

It is possible that you could be interested in what they are selling.
So far we are doing ok |-)

> or that a friend is inviting us to dinner).  I do not have one so that
> any clown in the country can call me at three in the morning to shout
> obscenities at me, or so that a telephone sales person can offer me

Oh Oh! Talk about obscenities. Look at the first word of your reply.
You shouted obscenities to the whole world (net.*** or was your shift
button stuck? Or maybe obscenities gravitate to you because they surround
you? (Water seeks it's oun level principle).

Three in the morning? Which version of readnews do you subscribe to?
I have never seen anybody at anytime say anything about three in the 
morning.

> such a deal for a product that I have no interest in.  Both of these

How do you or they know that you have no interest in buying an article.
Don't tell me that you have never in your life been a subject of
impulse buying. 

> latter cases are examples of unwanted intrusion into my home.  
> 
> > You have the right to hang up on me. If you
> > don't want your privacy invaded, a. Dont have a phone  b. Unplug it when you
> > don't use it.
> 
> This is like suggesting that if I don't want my home burglarized I
> should not have doors in the home.  Double bullshit.

Okay Rich, I'll give you this one.

> 
> 					Rich Strebendt
> 					...!ihnp4!iwsl6!res

Bob Nebert                                        
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