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Terry.Parks@launchpad.unc.edu (Terry Parks) writes:

>>Most of the other people who read this group are using "privacy" to
>>refer to their right to keep to themselves any and all information
>>which they consider to be nobody else's business.

>You have this right regardless of Caller ID. If you wish to remain private,
>simply choose not to call me, period!

Please, Terry, please.  We pay for our phones for other purposes besides
calling *you*.  We need to use them to call *potential* business contacts
to check on services and prices, and we don't feel that we need to surrender
our privacy to do so.

Stop trying to cast CNID as only applicable to calling individuals.  YOU
probably do not collect names and addresses and sell them to telemarketers,
so you don't represent the problem the rest of us are trying to avoid with
CNID.  Besides, how would CNID be of less use to you if the rest of us could
have our blocking?  You won't answer the call regardless, so your privacy
is preserved.  And businesses won't be able to collect our names and numbers,
cross-reference them with our addresses, and sell them to telemarketers to
harrass us while we're trying to eat dinner: INVADING OUR PRIVACY.

And please don't tell me not to call the businesses.  Businesses aren't
required to advertise which of them use CNID, so we don't have the information
we need to make an informed decision about which ones we should even bother
calling... and it's to THEIR BENEFIT that we call them in the first place;
they exist to serve us, not the other way around.

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