[102] in Cypherpunks
Re: 800 numbers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nickey MacDonald)
Fri Apr 30 19:28:29 1993
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 20:02:24 -0300 (ADT)
From: Nickey MacDonald <i6t4@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>
To: Mike Godwin <mnemonic@eff.org>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199304302135.AA01210@eff.org>
Of course, only Americans can dial those numbers.. which is a shame... (A
few Canadians could have skewed the voting... :-)
On a note similar to remailers, has anyone ever given consideration to
creating an "outdial" service? If I could dial long distance into the
States, and then be able to dial a 1-800 number that I cannot dial direct
from Canada (which is most) this would extremely useful... Could be taken
a step further, and with automated billing a person could dial *any*
number and charge it back to their calling card (though this would not be
fully anonymous, is there a use for this?? I donno... as Caller ID
becomes more prevalent... maybe...) I know law enforcement agents
use something like this for undercover operations, though I doubt they
figure in a long distance factor very often... Anyway, something to think
about...
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Nick MacDonald | NMD on IRC
i6t4@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca | PGP 2.1 Public key available via finger
On Fri, 30 Apr 1993, Mike Godwin wrote:
> Communications Week magazine has a weekly telephone response poll.
>
> This week's question is:
>
> Do you agree with the Clinton administration's Public Encryption
> Management directive for communications equipment?
>
> Yes: 800-242-CWKY
> No: 800-242-CWKN
