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From: phil@osiris.UUCP (Philip Kos)
Newsgroups: net.legal,net.religion,net.misc
Subject: Re: Auto-dialing Falwell
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Date: Tue, 21-Jan-86 17:49:02 EST
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> Harassing phone calls are illegal most everywhere and you could probably
> sue someone doing that sort of thing and recover the costs (which should
> be precisely calculatable from phone company records) if not more.
> -- 
> 	+1 617-492-8860		Donald E. Eastlake, III
> 	ARPA:  dee@CCA-UNIX	usenet:	{decvax,linus}!cca!dee

Perhaps I'm missing something (not being a net.legal reader, and having to
put up with a remarkably sporadic news feed), but do these calls fit the
*legal* definition of a "harassing call"?  From what I seem to remember,
they don't, but then I'm frequently wrong.  Anybody here know?



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