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From: paull@hplabs.UUCP (RP )
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: re:junk phone calls
Message-ID: <2519@hplabs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Mar-84 17:28:23 EST
Article-I.D.: hplabs.2519
Posted: Wed Mar  7 17:28:23 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 9-Mar-84 01:12:42 EST
Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto CA
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   What I do to avoid telephone solicitors is use an answering
machine to intercept all incoming calls. The machine allows you to
listen to the callers message.  If a friend is calling you can 
simply pick up the phone and talk. 

 I've found that most solicitors will hang up as soon as they realize
that THE'RE listening to a machine. 

 If a solicitor manages to get me in person I either tell them that
'I already have central air-conditioning' or that they have the
wrong number. When they call back in 10 seconds, I've switched on my
answering machine to intercept them. :-)


  [ Fighting back thru ingenuity not govenrment controls ]

                          Rob Paull ,  KA6SFV
                          HPL Palo Alto, CA.....