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Grex Synthesis Item 88: Call your Congressman!
Entered by robh on Mon Mar 11 16:12:25 UTC 1996:

(This info is from Jim (jimhoyt) Hoyt)

THE CHRISTIAN COALITION WILL PAY FOR YOUR CALL TO
CONGRESS
The following two telephone numbers will connect anyone in the U.S. to the
Capitol switchboard from where they can connect to
any Congressional office:
1-800-962-3524
1-800-972-3524
The numbers are courtesy of the Christian Coalition which is providing them
to its members (and now to us). Please feel free to
forward this message to friends and family.

Beware though, I'll bet the CC will match your phone number to your address
and then start sending you junk mail.

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#1 of 13 by brighn on Mon Mar 11 19:45:05 1996:

Also beware... you might be tempted to flood those numbers with calls
just to clog up the system and force the CC to pay through the nose.
Don't.  TActics like that are, I believe,
fairly illegal.

#2 of 13 by robh on Mon Mar 11 23:50:34 1996:

No, if you're going to call, call for a reason.
(There are plenty of good reasons to call these days.)

#3 of 13 by brighn on Tue Mar 12 00:16:19 1996:

Besides, flooding the system with pointless calls prevents the voices
that have something to say from being heard...

#4 of 13 by bruin on Tue Mar 12 01:13:48 1996:

Does the Xian Coalition have caller I.D.?  They might, knowing how they work!

#5 of 13 by selena on Tue Mar 12 05:25:48 1996:

One other thing- 800 numbers cannot be caller-ID blocked.. even if you have
an unlisted number, they can get you.

#6 of 13 by jazz on Wed Mar 13 06:12:08 1996:

        WATS lines use ANI, not the caller ID functions, and they work in
areas without the CLASS (*70, *69, etc ...) services.  There are ways of
preventing WATS lines from getting your ANI, but it depends on the type of
WATS line.  These aren't AT&T WATS lines, which I know fairly well; I dunno
who they are.  It makes a difference.

#7 of 13 by jimhoyt on Wed Mar 13 13:27:54 1996:

Perhaps those who can -- call from work. That'd be the 8-5 slot for
most folk anyway. And, of course, it doesn't cost your employer anything.

#8 of 13 by otter on Sat Mar 23 03:56:53 1996:

If you don't want junk mail from sources like that, keep your address
unpublished. Works for us.

#9 of 13 by selena on Sun Mar 24 16:40:11 1996:

Doesn't work against 1-800 search engines

#10 of 13 by jazz on Sun Mar 24 16:54:10 1996:

        If yer that paranoid, yer just gonna have to call from a loop.  The
good news, though, is that the monopoly of the LEC's (i.e. Ameritech the
Incompetent in our area) is broken, so we'll soon have scads of companies
competing for resources, and one's bound to offer privacy as a feature.  Or
not know enough to prevent us from grabbing and holding onto privacy, anyways.

#11 of 13 by selena on Wed Mar 27 04:42:07 1996:

        Well, I'd just as soon *not* let Robertson have my name/number
on his enemies list..

#12 of 13 by mneme on Mon Apr 1 23:37:20 1996:

Don't worry, Selena -- Robertson doesn'th ave the right to listen in on your
conversation any more than any other provider... ..

#13 of 13 by jazz on Sat Apr 6 16:39:13 1996:

        If Ameritech knows the number to the regional office where the call
is trunked, that is ... draconian technology is only useful when coupled with
maniacal competence.

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