🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 20:31:43 GMT, "Cornstock" <go@away.com> wrote:

>> I don't want them using my wires.
>>
>> I don't want them using the machine I bought and paid for
>> called '**MY** telephone'.  It is called '*MY** telephone rather than
>> just '*A PUBLIC ** telephone, because I bought and paid for it.  It is
>> mine.
>
>When you connect your phone to the telephone network, by default you are
>allowing (authorizing) others to call you on "your" equipment.  This is a

	The hell I am !  No more than when I drive on a public road, I
am inviting you to take my car down to the store when you feel like
it.  My car has locks on it to prevent you from using it ( if your
conscience and morals don't ).  The DNC is a lock on my phone to
prevent you from using it.  Go buy your own phone and call yourself.

	I have an internet connection to my private network.  Within
my network I run several webservers and other things.  Guess what ?
Neither you nor anyone else is authorized to access them without my
permission !  I can 'look out' ( use the internet, IE the phone system
), but you can not 'look in' ( use or even see my network ) even
though they are connected !  Because I own the things I own, and you
don't get to use them without my permission ( which you do not have ).

>general statement given if you have a standard phone service.  You can tell
>you phone service that you don't want certain people to call you: ie. those
>who use caller id protection & those orignating from numbers you tell the
>phone company to block (there may also be other ways that I don't know
>about).  There are ways to handle this outside more regulation.

	This DNC is another way to tell another group of 'certain
people' not to call me, if that is what I wish to tell them ( by
signing up ).

	It's not 'regulation', it's a service, provided so that those
who wish to sign up have a means of communicating with the vast
tele-asshole community in a way that is logistically feasible.  It is
a facilitation of the desires of the people.

>Besides the truth of the matter is, this law - like so many others - won't
>do a damn thing.  It will not stop people from calling you during dinner to
>ask for money (donations or in exchange for goods or services).  Do you
>understand that?

	Of course.  But it's a nice thought :-)

	BTW, the tele-asshole industry doesnt' seem to understand it,
or at least pretends not to, because they're screaming that it will
put them out of business.  Which I wish it would, but I suspect it
won't.



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