Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site phri.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!pyramid!pesnta!phri!roy From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Falwell, phones and abortion Message-ID: <2158@phri.UUCP> Date: Sat, 25-Jan-86 11:11:57 EST Article-I.D.: phri.2158 Posted: Sat Jan 25 11:11:57 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 26-Jan-86 20:21:12 EST References: <1173@osu-eddie.UUCP> Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 29 > From: green (Jeffrey Greenberg) > Once the Falwell psychic-terrorism machine publishes it's phone numbers > any communication by phone seems fair. One cannot presume what an > appropriate phone response is... > [...] > 614-263-0065 I notice that you published your phone number. Does that make it OK for me to turn my auto-dialer on you? Hardly. Come to think of it, all you have really done is put a 10 digit number in your article. Maybe I shouldn't presume it is your phone number, but rather a song to be played on a touch-tone phone? Maybe I should keep playing it until I recognize the tune! Jeff, you have given me your system's phone number so I can send you news. Does that mean it's OK for me to call your system 24 hours a day and tie up your phone lines by dumping 500 copies of every article on your system so your disks overflow? Isn't it presumptuous of me to assume that you only wanted one copy of each? There is such a thing a common sense. When Falwell tells people his 800 number, there is every indication that he intends it to be used for people to call up and talk about relegion or make pledges or hear a recorded sermon or whatever. Just because you don't like him doesn't mean you are allowed to abuse the fact that you know his phone number. -- Roy Smith System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016