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On 8/1/2015 10:11 PM, Dr. S.M. Ghazanfar wrote:<br>
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Shall I request my friends to relax?</blockquote>
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No. Good telephone number management practices are more necessary
than ever. My parents had the same residence telephone number for
sixty years. Technologically its possible to allow your phone
number to follow you around the country, but whether that's a good
idea today depends on more factors than the just the physical
location of your residence (or cell phone) relative to the telephone
company's land line (or cell tower) switching electronics.<br>
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Given that there are many organizations (and people) attempting to
build databases with information about others, being pro-active
about what one allows to be known beyond those who actually need to
know that information is more important than ever. Some
organizations are under the impression that they own data in their
possession that is personally identifiable to other people. Whether
that impression should be allowed to stand in fact or in law is a
matter worth discussing. Telephone numbers are only the tip of the
information iceberg, and considering the iceberg is warming, action
before it melts altogether is advisable.<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:55BDA673.7000502@uidaho.edu" type="cite">I
moved out of Idaho.</blockquote>
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Yes, but has Idaho moved out of you?<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:55BDA673.7000502@uidaho.edu" type="cite">My
guess is similar calls will be happening elsewhere also. I am
told Georgia is also fully of empty heads.<br>
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Georgia is also less full of water than it used to be. The Winco
grocery chain has replaced gallons of water from northwest
Washington state bottled in clear plastic with gallons of water from
Georgia bottled in cloudy milk jug plastic containers. Adding
cross-country transportation into the costs for consumable potable
water does not seem such a fulsome idea, but there it is on the
shelves.<br>
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Ken<br>
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