Re: Does this seem illegal to you?
Sprint TeleMap: You've been after this woman who gives you the ultimate hard-on, but she won't play. Every night you write her another letter, pouring out your heart, begging for her hand, telling her all the lucious things you'll do with her once she comes to her senses and lets you into her life. Lately you've been getting your letters back,"return to sender, no such addressee" in purple Post Office ink. But no matter, you call her number, and get the recording with her new number. You've been getting angrier lately, as she's changed her number three times now. If only she would let you into her life, you'd make wonderful music together by the moonlight- but No!, she just won't play. The anger has been building, and lately you've been taking to leaving more and more desperate messages on her answering machine. She's really getting to you now, you want to teach her a lesson, a lesson she'll never forget. You've been trying to follow her car home from work, but for some reason she's not driving the same car or taking the same route; she might even have changed jobs. Boy oh boy, you'll teach *her* a lesson, teach *her* to say No to you! You feel inside your jacket, where your .38 is carefully tucked. Yeah, teach her a lesson for sure! And lo, a Sprint payphone! You dial the 1-800 number and ask for directions... give them her last known phone number... the seconds tick by, your head whirling with the things you're going to tell her and make her plead with you.... a second or two later, the operator comes back on the line. Go right at Harbor... left at Main... two blocks down to Third, second house on the left. Aha, there we go. Thank you, operator. A warm bulge rises in your pants as you contemplate your next move. Boy are you going to teach her a lesson! This special moment brought to you by Sprint TeleMap. ,
If he has her phone number, and its listed, he can check any reverse phone directory, get her address, and do this anyway. He doesn't need spring telemap. If she's stupid enough not to get an unlisted number, then Sprint Telemap isn't going to do anything worse than what can be done already. Perry "George A. Gleason" says:
Sprint TeleMap:
You've been after this woman who gives you the ultimate hard-on, but she won't play. Every night you write her another letter, pouring out your heart, begging for her hand, telling her all the lucious things you'll do with her once she comes to her senses and lets you into her life. Lately you've been getting your letters back,"return to sender, no such addressee" in purple Post Office ink. But no matter, you call her number, and get the recording with her new number. You've been getting angrier lately, as she's changed her number three times now. If only she would let you into her life, you'd make wonderful music together by the moonlight- but No!, she just won't play. The anger has been building, and lately you've been taking to leaving more and more desperate messages on her answering machine. She's really getting to you now, you want to teach her a lesson, a lesson she'll never forget. You've been trying to follow her car home from work, but for some reason she's not driving the same car or taking the same route; she might even have changed jobs. Boy oh boy, you'll teach *her* a lesson, teach *her* to say No to you! You feel inside your jacket, where your .38 is carefully tucked. Yeah, teach her a lesson for sure! And lo, a Sprint payphone! You dial the 1-800 number and ask for directions... give them her last known phone number... the seconds tick by, your head whirling with the things you're going to tell her and make her plead with you.... a second or two later, the operator comes back on the line. Go right at Harbor... left at Main... two blocks down to Third, second house on the left. Aha, there we go. Thank you, operator. A warm bulge rises in your pants as you contemplate your next move. Boy are you going to teach her a lesson!
This special moment brought to you by Sprint TeleMap. ,
In reply to (Perry E. Metzger): | If he has her phone number, and its listed, he can check any reverse | phone directory, get her address, and do this anyway. He doesn't need | spring telemap. If she's stupid enough not to get an unlisted number, | then Sprint Telemap isn't going to do anything worse than what can be | done already. A company over here in Australia rekeyed the telephone directory offshore and offered a reverse-directory on our 0055 system (analogous to your 900s), there was considerable uproar over the facility. Firstly the police and community groups (including privacy groups) were of course angered at the ability for criminals to reverse lookup targets. The 'teleco' also made some vague allegations about the legitimacy of rekeying their phone- books. Anyway, under considerable pressure, reverse directory lookups were removed for all 'residential' numbers, although the director of the company was adamant that he was under no legal obligation to do so, but took the action due to 'public concern'. It should also be noted that from the outset the company did provide the ability for people to dial up a secondary number and have their entry removed. Although, it must be said that CDROM whitepages are available, and i'm ignorant of what limitations have been built into them to stop people (i.e. corporations) turning them into reverse directories. I thought it was interesting enough when the original poster talked about the TeleMap service, but to now find out that reverse directories are 'common', ho hum. Matthew. -- Matthew Gream,, M.Gream@uts.edu.au -- Consent Technologies, 02-821-2043.
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