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Subject: Re: Calling Party ID Suspension
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	 >From: "Marc T. Kaufman" <kaufman@polya.stanford.edu>
	 Organization: Stanford University

	 As for using mechanical counters for toll purposes... I suspect
	 that is due more to ease of implementation (in relay days) than
	 to any real privacy related issue.

Sorry, not so.  Or rather, while that may have been the original motive
for installing the pulse meters, the status quo is very loudly defended
on privacy grounds.