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From: mjranum@gouldsd.UUCP (Marcus the Ranum)
Newsgroups: misc.consumers
Subject: Re: automatic sales calls
Message-ID: <199@gouldsd.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 12-Oct-86 21:22:58 EDT
Article-I.D.: gouldsd.199
Posted: Sun Oct 12 21:22:58 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 14-Oct-86 05:15:48 EDT
References: <1123@leadsv.UUCP> 189@gouldsd.UUCP <118WGRCU@CUNYVM>
Organization: Gould Inc, ASDD, Landover, MD
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Summary: sefone freaking

In article <118WGRCU@CUNYVM>, WGRCU@CUNYVM.BITNET writes:
> In article <189@gouldsd.UUCP>, mjranum@gouldsd.UUCP (Marcus the Ranum) says:
> 
> >        One thing I have been toying with getting made is as follows:
> >splice a device into your phone that mediates between the actual phone
> >pickup and the ringer. When an inbound call is detected, the device
> >picks up, and produces a ring tone, without ringing the bell.
> >That way, only people you care to talk to could talk to you.

> >Live Free
> >mjr

> I've seen these devices advertised, and I never imagined what sort of person
> would consider themselves so self-important that they would have to have their
> calls screened for them to the point of not even allowing people to leave a
> message.

	Gee, I am just the sort of person who is that self-important !! ;-) !!
Seriously, to each his own. When I come home from work in the evening the 
last thing I want is to talk to anyone who doesn't have something useful to
say. I get enough people screaming for me during working hours that when I
get home, nobody had better call me unless it's an emergency !!
	I am not one of those zeeks who wants a cellular car phone or some
neat toy as a status symbol, I just want to be left bloody well alone !! 
My phone is a convenience for ME, and when I don't want it around, that 
is simply that.

Live Free Anyway.
mjr

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Take the round flat moon
Strange in the wondrous blue I find
consecrate our death