At 03:41 PM 12/3/2002, Olsen Chris wrote:
I don't quite follow this. First of all, what privacy right has been violated? The only thing the buyer bought was freedom from having his or her number listed.well, what i have bought is making it very difficult ... though technically not impossible ... for someone to be able to dial my number ... no matter where they live or no matter by what mechanism
in fact, the chance that anyone could dial at random and, get some unlisted number is ... extremely remote ... nigh to impossible
gallup has no such problem ... all the unlisted numbers are automatically IN the pool to be sampled from AND, in fact ... i assume they could specify (via some method) that n number of UNlisted #s be drawn ... i betcha dime to a donut that IF one can include unlisted numbers ... they can be identified too ... so, they can guarantee that SOME unlisted #s would be drawn ... and called ... neither you nor i could do that
Buying a capability of filtering out calls from all but specified numbers would probably be much more expensive. If there existed a RIGHT to such privacy, we wouldn't have to buy it.which brings up another issue ... we pay to have our names NOT listed ... that is, we pay to NOT have the phone book company use ink to print our name ... and we don't pay (as much) to have them use the ink
doesn't that sound rather backwards? is this an EXTRA service we are being provided or, LESS of a service?
I also don't see how Gallup is operating on a different set of rules. I could also randomly dial these 10-digit random numbers, though not as quickly,right ... if you did it ... you would probably never get one ... but, gallup has the assurance that unlisted numbers are in an IDENFIABLE POOL ...
the playing field is not equal ... gallup has access to the full set of numbers ... before hand ... you don't ... nor do i
gallup should have to go to the same degree of effort and pain ... to get (if i had one) my unlisted # as any other poor soul charged with doing so
IMHO anyway ...
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