🚀 go-pugleaf

Rick Ellis wrote:
> 
> In article <3328030C.118@pacbell.net>,
> Wally Roberts  <terps@pacbell.net> wrote:
> >Hansel E. Lee Jr. wrote:
> >
> >> If the only way you can get your caller-id to work is by forcing everyone
> >> to unblock calls.. maybe that should tell you something..  I'd say that
> >> Companies (to include public utilities) have MORE of a right to block their
> >> number from being released than you have in demanding to receive it..
> >
> >What it tells me is that the California authorities conducted a scare
> >campaign rather than an education campaign last year before they became
> >the last state in the nation to offer caller id.  The state regulators
> >were
> >like a bunch of upset kids because they fought the FCC in court and lost
> >every step of the way.
> >
> >No other state fought this technology like that.  26 states don't even
> >permit per-line blocking, only per-call blocking.  The per-line blocking
> >rate in California is around 75%.  In the other 23 states that permit
> >it,
> >it's in the low single digits.  That also tells me something.
> 
> So move.  We have plenty of people in California.  We won't miss you!

Thanks for making my case.  I'll just remain and continue to block the
*stupid* mindless blockers.~