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1997-12-20 - Re: Is Anonymous Communication only for “Criminals”? (was: Re: UCENET II and Peter duh Silva)

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From: Charlie Comsec <comsec@nym.alias.net>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: 529fb5b5279745f08332b3f40c38bb55e568677c10e78f9d0d7c874d29736e0a
Message ID: <19971220182004.12276.qmail@nym.alias.net>
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UTC Datetime: 1997-12-20 18:26:45 UTC
Raw Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 02:26:45 +0800

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From: Charlie Comsec <comsec@nym.alias.net>
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 02:26:45 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Is Anonymous Communication only for "Criminals"? (was: Re: UCENET II and Peter duh Silva)
Message-ID: <19971220182004.12276.qmail@nym.alias.net>
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gburnore@netcom.com (Gary L. Burnore) wrote:

> On 19 Dec 1997 23:01:59 +0100, Charlie Comsec  wrote:
> :Actually in the case of anonymous e-mail you have one additional
> :safeguard.  You can ask to be blocked from receiving anonymous e-mail.  Try
> :telling the telephone company that you want to be blocked from receiving
> :calls from any pay phone!
>    
> It's available now.  The first to use it are pager companies.

Why would a pager company want to block calls from pay phones?  Haven't
you seen that commercial (for MCI?) where the kids crowd into that phone
booth and page someone to pick them up from school before the big
storm hits?  Imagine if they had gotten a recording saying "I'm sorry.
You can't page this number from a pay phone."  Really bad PR!

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