Steve Says:
> One legal scholar close to a federal case on this point,indicated that the
> typical voice mail/answering machine message: "please leave a message at
> the tone..." constitutes permission to do so by the automated calling
> device. In any event...for federal office, the MN Sp.Ct. does not apply.
>
> Steve Minn
>
So all we have to do is change our answering machine message to something like:
"If you are soliciting for any purpose please hang up now; otherwise leave
a message."
These machines are terrible. Despite the "please leave message..." comment
above, you are using my private phone equipment inside of my four walls,
roof and floor. So by leaving me a message you are an intruder in my
house, just as you would be if you hacked into one of the many holes in
Windows 9x and looked around on my computer. We have enacted laws against
that type of intrusion, and leaving messages on my answering machine is no
different than that. If a hacker is an intruder on a business computer
system, then a political campaign is an intruder by leaving a message,
automated or not, on my answering machine.
Rich McMartin
Bryant Neigborhood.
