-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- 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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