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From: edg@micropro.UUCP (Ed Greenberg)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Long Distance (actually unlisted phone service)
Message-ID: <210@micropro.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 11-Jan-86 02:37:40 EST
Article-I.D.: micropro.210
Posted: Sat Jan 11 02:37:40 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jan-86 06:12:59 EST
References: <82@druhi.UUCP> <830@felix.UUCP> <78@ttidcc.UUCP>
Reply-To: edg@micropr.UUCP (Ed Greenberg)
Organization: MicroPro Int'l Corp., San Rafael, CA
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In article <78@ttidcc.UUCP> hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath) writes:
>
>But you'll still get annoying sales calls (to the wrong name, yet).  That's
>the  main  reason  for  unlisted  service,  in  my  opinion,  unless you're
>specifically trying to hide from someone.
>
Yes, but they're easy to identify, and they weed out much junk.  Hell,
Charles S. Collier (named after a Shepherd-Collie named Charlie) even
got junk mail... Once, an offer of a credit card!

One gets junk calls on one's unlisted number, though not as many, and
they don't presume to know your name.

Charging for unlisted is a crock, but, since our society is full of
crocks, it fits right in.
				-e
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