I don't know who Andrew is either but I can certainly sympathise with him. Wait until you start getting a lot of phone calls with most unusual requests for contributions, special offers, market surveys and other weird stuff. Or when you come home from work just to find your voice mailbox full of unwanted promotions for things you never asked for. Worst if you have answering machine with limited capacity.
Then you'll understand that it's not paranoia, it is just common sense. True, most of us are listed in white pages but why make it easier for phone spammers or marketers? Adrian On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 18:18 +1200, Don Gould wrote: > Andrew who are you? What have you got to hid at your house from the > rest of us? > > My address and phone details are in the white pages. > > This guys trying to get linux up and running with a modem and printer... > > It's attitude like yours that grows paranoiya. > > While I respect your right to privacy, I would like to think that others > would respect it by not just showing up uninvited... (and no, that's > not a hint at Rik who did show up yesterday after trying a number of > times to ring me and finding my woosh phone still crashes every so often > :-) He was more than welcome, as is any fellow geek! :). > > > Cheers Don > > Andrew Errington wrote: > > > No, no, NO! > > > >This is not a good idea. > > > >Personal information like this should be emailed to named and known > >individuals only. This list is a public forum, visible to *anyone* and > >archived on the Internet for eternity. > > > >Of course, if you know all that and still wish to do it then go ahead. > > > >Andy > > > > > > >
