Normally I just ignore your bullshit since it's fun to just watch everyone else wail on you, but it's been a slow day.
said by Taurus333:The supposed "overwhelming public demand" amounts to less than 20% of the population. That is where the total stands as to how many actually signed up for it.
Check that against the number of private, non-business phone numbers, not the total population. That's just stupid. One phone line does not one citizen equate.
said by Taurus333:Excuse me, but how does your idea of how your phone service should be used differ from using my computer, my internet service, that I pay for in my home to communicate with me? I didn't specifically ask for your response to this and I could see your response in the same unsolicited way that you see a telemarketers call.
A phone call is not a random yelled greeting to any receptive persons in a park. And: you DO realise you did not solicit his response, and you aren't even paying to post to/read this board. He pays for his phone line, he damn well has every right not to want every Tom, Dick, and Harry be able to call it.
said by Taurus333:And without rehashing the old telemarketing debate here, your inability to take personal responsibility for your phone line, infringes on my ability to use my phone service that I pay for in the way that I see fit. Keep in mind, neither of us owns the phone service and both of us pay for outgoing and not incoming calls.
Ignoring that, in fact, he has unlisted and unpublished numbers. Also ignoring that your right to use your service ends where his rights to use his service begins. An unlisted number means just that, don't call it if you don't know who it belongs to. Guess what? The law was changed to agree.
said by hpguru:Furthermore I have had unlisted and unpublished telephone numbers since I had my first phone and while that cut down on the number of spammers calling it didn't stop them all. And you know good and well that for most of the years technologies such as CID have been available they have failed to identify out of area spammer calls as such which has forced most people to answer so as not to miss calls from out of area friends and relatives or from their employers.
said by Taurus333:And even though you might not have a problem with me being put out of business because of laws like this, one day it could be you in that same predicament simply cause someone else decides they don't approve of what you do.
That's what all the spammers say, but nobody has any sympathy for them. Malware is the telemarketing of the internet.
