On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
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From: "Scott Kitterman" <spf2(_at_)kitterman(_dot_)com>
To: <spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com>
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 2:19 PM
Subject: [spf-discuss] OT - Telephone Caller ID
Or you could just dial *67 in the US (different numbers in different
countries) and turn off caller ID.
There is no privacy need to fake a caller ID number.
Yes, there is. There's an interesting balance for locations that block
unidentified calls, such as lots of corporate and business lines and people
who are harassed, and people who need to not use their own Caller-ID
information for privacy reasons.
The balance does resemble that between forwarding email messages with
spoofed or unspoofed addresses or re-written "MAIL FROM" lines.
Ah. So you would rather people lie about who they are than comply with a
message recipient's clearly stated desires about whether they wish to
accept messages from people who refuse to identify themselves or who are
provably lying about who they are.
If I don't want to talk to people who want to be anonymous, *why should
your desire to be anonymous trump my right to not talk to you*?
--
Benjamin Franz