Re: Does this seem illegal to you?

Sprint TeleMap:

You've been after this woman who gives you the ultimate hard-on, but she    
won't play.  Every night you write her another letter, pouring out your     
heart, begging for her hand, telling her all the lucious things you'll do   
with her once she comes to her senses and lets you into her life.  Lately
you've been getting your letters back,"return to sender, no such addressee"
in purple Post Office ink.  But no matter, you call her number, and get the
recording with her new number.  You've been getting angrier lately, as she's
changed her number three times now.  If only she would let you into her
life, you'd make wonderful music together by the moonlight- but No!, she
just won't play.  The anger has been building, and lately you've been taking
to leaving more and more desperate messages on her answering machine.  She's
really getting to you now, you want to teach her a lesson, a lesson she'll
never forget.  You've been trying to follow her car home from work, but for
some reason she's not driving the same car or taking the same route; she
might even have changed jobs.  Boy oh boy, you'll teach *her* a lesson,
teach *her* to say No to you!  You feel inside your jacket, where your .38
is carefully tucked.  Yeah, teach her a lesson for sure!  And lo, a Sprint
payphone!  You dial the 1-800 number and ask for directions... give them her
last known phone number... the seconds tick by, your head whirling with the
things you're going to tell her and make her plead with you.... a second or
two later, the operator comes back on the line.   Go right at Harbor... left
at Main... two blocks down to Third, second house on the left.  Aha, there
we go.  Thank you, operator.  A warm bulge rises in your pants as you
contemplate your next move.  Boy are you going to teach her a lesson!

This special moment brought to you by Sprint TeleMap.  
,

If he has her phone number, and its listed, he can check any reverse
phone directory, get her address, and do this anyway. He doesn't need
spring telemap. If she's stupid enough not to get an unlisted number,
then Sprint Telemap isn't going to do anything worse than what can be
done already.

Perry


"George A. Gleason" says:
> Sprint TeleMap:
> 
> You've been after this woman who gives you the ultimate hard-on, but she    
> won't play.  Every night you write her another letter, pouring out your     
> heart, begging for her hand, telling her all the lucious things you'll do   
> with her once she comes to her senses and lets you into her life.  Lately
> you've been getting your letters back,"return to sender, no such addressee"
> in purple Post Office ink.  But no matter, you call her number, and get the
> recording with her new number.  You've been getting angrier lately, as she's
> changed her number three times now.  If only she would let you into her
> life, you'd make wonderful music together by the moonlight- but No!, she
> just won't play.  The anger has been building, and lately you've been taking
> to leaving more and more desperate messages on her answering machine.  She's
> really getting to you now, you want to teach her a lesson, a lesson she'll
> never forget.  You've been trying to follow her car home from work, but for
> some reason she's not driving the same car or taking the same route; she
> might even have changed jobs.  Boy oh boy, you'll teach *her* a lesson,
> teach *her* to say No to you!  You feel inside your jacket, where your .38
> is carefully tucked.  Yeah, teach her a lesson for sure!  And lo, a Sprint
> payphone!  You dial the 1-800 number and ask for directions... give them her
> last known phone number... the seconds tick by, your head whirling with the
> things you're going to tell her and make her plead with you.... a second or
> two later, the operator comes back on the line.   Go right at Harbor... left
> at Main... two blocks down to Third, second house on the left.  Aha, there
> we go.  Thank you, operator.  A warm bulge rises in your pants as you
> contemplate your next move.  Boy are you going to teach her a lesson!
> 
> This special moment brought to you by Sprint TeleMap.  
> ,

In reply to (Perry E. Metzger):

| If he has her phone number, and its listed, he can check any reverse
| phone directory, get her address, and do this anyway. He doesn't need
| spring telemap. If she's stupid enough not to get an unlisted number,
| then Sprint Telemap isn't going to do anything worse than what can be
| done already.

A company over here in Australia rekeyed the telephone directory offshore
and offered a reverse-directory on our 0055 system (analogous to your
900s), there was considerable uproar over the facility. Firstly the police
and community groups (including privacy groups) were of course angered
at the ability for criminals to reverse lookup targets. The 'teleco' also
made some vague allegations about the legitimacy of rekeying their phone-
books. 

Anyway, under considerable pressure, reverse directory lookups were removed
for all 'residential' numbers, although the director of the company was
adamant that he was under no legal obligation to do so, but took the action
due to 'public concern'. It should also be noted that from the outset the
company did provide the ability for people to dial up a secondary number
and have their entry removed.

Although, it must be said that CDROM whitepages are available, and i'm 
ignorant of what limitations have been built into them to stop people 
(i.e. corporations) turning them into reverse directories.

I thought it was interesting enough when the original poster talked about 
the TeleMap service, but to now find out that reverse directories are 
'common', ho hum.

Matthew.
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Matthew Gream,, M.Gream@uts.edu.au -- Consent Technologies, 02-821-2043.