Re: [twuug] 'Privacy bounce': possible?

[Ethan <telmnstr@xxxxxxx>]

> The only way to insure your privacy is to take an active role in protecting it.
> If you don't want solicitation calls, for example, then you need to 1) have
> an unlisted number  and  2) don't give your phone number to businesses.
> This has been my practice for 15 years, and I have never had a phone
> solicitation.  If you don't want junk Email, don't post or give out your
> Email address to non-friends and set up a Hotmail or such account for anything
> else.
>

Well, being a geek for a long time.. I've learned that if you try to hide
your identity then some people find it a challenge to find it. Right now
the  phone lines are all public. I find this _entertaining_. For every
long distance company... here is my terms:

"AT&T? I want two white large lucent collard shirts, complete with the
embrodered lucent technologies text and flaming asshole logo" (Doug M. has
one!) ... and for MCI, its demanded worldcomm shirt. 

So as of now, my long distance is still with whoever its been with. I get
laughs. As for telemarketers? I rip em up! Throw them on hold with rap
music.. 
 
> Unfortunately, given the state of technology, there is no way to win the
> battle to protect your privacy once your private information is leaked...
> at that point it is just too late.  No amount of laws or bouncing or fighting
> is ever going to change that.

No but you can play too! Here is a long kept secret that only a few people
in the area ever use to an advantage.

Say someone calls you and you *69 them, or somehow get in a fight where
you have a phone number... you want their name tho. So you can cross
reference it to an address. Virginia Power to the rescue. Automation tells
all! Enter the phone number on the lights out hotline, it responds with
the last name. White pages might give you a complete cross reference to
the whereabouts. I just remember that from the BBS days. Had to let you in
on it.

As far as spam, I used my real email address in the newsgroups way before
spam was an issue. Now its sort of stuck. That is when I was an infi.net
subscriber (before I was an employee). I still have that mail forwarded
and catch all the spam thru there. Its pretty much a spam feed since once
your on the mega 5 million email addresses for 5$ mailing list your
screwed. If only I got royalties....


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