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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: news.admin,comp.org.ieee
Subject: Re: Telephone Electronic Junk Mail
Summary: Mountain out or a mole hill
Message-ID: <549@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 14 Apr 89 11:57:50 GMT
References: <1586@ucsd.EDU> <2468@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM> <1193@westmark.UUCP>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc., Louisville Ky
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In article <1193@westmark.UUCP>, dave@westmark.UUCP (Dave Levenson) writes:
> In article <1772@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>, vancleef@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Robert
E. Van Cleef) writes:
] ] In California, there already is a law regulating Junk calls from
] ] electronic systems.  All computer generated calls are required to
] ] be proceded by a live introduction and the receiver's approval is
] ] required before you can connect the computer interviewer.
] 
] 
] If this applies to ALL computer generated calls, that's too bad. 
] We'll miss all those California-based members of the usenet
] community whose machnes call each other all day and night exchanging
] data.  What a pain -- paying human beings to make live introductions
] before switching to DATA mode when the modem calls another modem... 
] I doubt many of the folks there will be able to stay "networked" at
] such a cost!
]

People seem to be making more out of this than is necessary. The keywords
seem to be 'unsolicited' [in the original posting about ads] and 
'receivers approval' in this case. If you are using a BBS you are giving
you are the one making the call, so if there are ads on the BBS, and you 
don't like them, it is your right not to call that BBS. Like TV.

As far as usenet batch calling, if two computers call each other, they
have each others approval also. That's what the password is for. 


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I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.