Francis Hwang on Sun, 3 Oct 2004 23:10:16 +0200 (CEST) |
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Re: <nettime> epistemological crisis for US tail-chasing politics |
Coming in the future is the fact that with VOIP, you're allowed to have a phone number with any area code anywhere ... so you're getting situations where people living in Tokyo have NYC area codes, which when it gets bigger is going to foobar phone polling like nobody's business. On Oct 2, 2004, at 11:08 AM, t byfield wrote: > Uninvited/impersonal calls to mobile phones remains, amazingly, a big > no-no in the US. I wonder if this taboo is eroding. In the last few months I've received two telemarketing calls -- from a bot, no less -- from Earthlink at my cell phone which has a very unambiguously cell-only area code. Francis Hwang http://fhwang.net/ AIM: francisrhizome # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net