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To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 May 1994 16:12:52 EDT."
<199405242012.AA22539@world.std.com>
Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 13:21:44 -0700
From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
>I could accept "MY PREFERENCES ARE that anonymity must be the default"
>more easily, but whatever.
I happened to get an autocall from advertising droid this morning shortly
before I posted my earlier note. Now, I did the obvious thing with the
darn thing, I put it on hold and let it blare into a resistor pack (all
the while costing its owner message units at business rates, I hope). We
all get calls like this, and we are all starting to get mail and news
messages from weenies who think the Internet is a wonderful and untapped
market for such techniques.
But I still feel that a phone call is more intrusive than mail or e-mail
or news; it's more personal and requires more direct effort to filter it.
And so when you propose giving my phone number to anyone who knows my
e-mail address, I have to stop and consider the ultimate likely result.
There are a lot of other things wrong with the proposal, but the lack of
anonymity is its worst and most fatal flaw.
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