What I encountered lately is that more and more telephone marketing is done. I told now all my friends and people I know to not hide their numbers when calling me. I won't pick a call on my cell phone or at home if there's no number displayed. If they ask me why I do that I answer if someone calls me they already know who I am and by hiding their number they have an advantage over me. By doing so I even this out and I also tell them if a call is really important why not letting me know who's on the other line...?

It's the same with email now. I don't care if they think that's rude I just even out an advantage of others and make my life easier. Hitting reply and press send won't even take 5 secs and if those people are real and want something from me I think I'm worth those 5 secs!

At 23:57 21.08.2003 -0600, you wrote:
Kyle Hasselbacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Comments I've seen have been along the lines of:

[...]

> * I hate these things. They're so rude.

They're just different than what people are accustomed to, which
always breeds resistance.  Some people might also consider it "rude"
that I ask ``who is it?'' before opening my front door, or screen
phone calls with a caller-id box, but these are just necessary evils
in the turbulent world most of us live in.  The current Internet is
akin to South-Central Los Angeles.  It pained us all to watch the
neighborhood change, but sticking your head in the sand isn't going to
help anything.

In any case, and as I mentioned before, TMDA goes to great lengths to
insure that the "rudeness" is kept to a bare minimum.
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