Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 09:23:37 -0400
From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Phone Numbers
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Keith F. Lynch wrote:
> Mike Bartman wrote:
>[A whole buncha stuff ...]

Guys, this is getting out of hand.  Cool it.

Keith, I and everybody else has said many times how much we appreciate
the huge amount of work you've put into the Web site.  Again, thanks!

Mike, anybody who wants your unlisted phone number has it.  Last time I
checked, all it took was $20 to the right phone company employee or a
bit of social engineering.

 From the mid 1980s to the late 1990s I had my office phone number in my
.sig.  In that time, I received *one* phone call based on that info (a
guy on a technical discussion group wanted more information).  This
despite, at one point, having my sig posted on a hate site, under a fake
message, with the note "Let's all call this guy up and tell him what we
think of people like him".

For about the last ten years, my resume has been on the Web, with my
work and cellphone numbers.  I have received *no* calls from anybody
except job recruiters.  Biggest problem I've had is with recruiters who
call the cellphone, which I don't turn on very often.  (If you Google on
my full name (Stephen G. Smith), my resume is the fourth result, as of a
few minutes ago.)

You can play "what if?" to any extent you want, depending on how badly
you want to scare yourself.

--
Steve Smith                                    sgs at aginc dot net
Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."