On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 06:20:02PM -0800, Lucky Green wrote: > Harmon Seaver wrote: > > Tim mentioned cell phones and the lack of telemarketing > > calls on his, but really that's only because, at this point > > at least, the cellphone number lists haven't been sold. This > > might change in the near future, as several wireless > > providers have been considering selling their subscriber lists. > > It's hard to see how they could do this, however, since, > > unlike landline calls -- annoying enough -- spam calls to > > your cellphone would cost *you* money. > > Given this fact, one wonders why the cell phone providers have not yet > made the list available for download by anybody. Well, they'll figure it > out in due time. >
Why would they do that, any more than the landlines would release unpublished numbers, since that's what cell numbers are now? And I'm sure there would be tremendous demand for them to a) not charge for incoming calls, or b) start filtering for spammers. But I imagine there'd be no small number (or rather a large class action) of suits for releasing unpublished numbers if the cell company did it deliberately. And if it were "leaked", they'd just be forced to change them all. I seriously doubt very many would put up with having their precious minutes wasted by spammers. Especially those who have already given up their landlines altogether to be rid of the hassles. -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com
