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From: ted@teldata.UUCP (Ted Becker)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Junk Phone Calls
Message-ID: <249@teldata.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-Feb-84 14:13:53 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 29 14:13:53 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 5-Mar-84 00:36:42 EST
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Organization: Teltone Corp., Kirkland, WA
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My response to those damn machines is to make a statement about invasion of
privacy in response to each question.

Write to your legislators (State & Fed.) and to state utilities commissions
and maybe the FCC.

QUESTION:  Are such calls a violation of city ordinances limiting
solicitation?

A more radical approach would be to obtain and publish the home phone numbers
of the officers of the companies which make, sell, and use these machine.
People who object to receiving calls from these machine could then call the
promoters and lodge their protest.

Many years ago my mother fought back.  She was fed-up with the junk calls
from an awning & aluminum siding co.  So she made an appointment for the
salesman to come to our house.  When he arrived he was met in the driveway
by my parents who then very quietly asked the man how he liked having his
time wasted. (I might add that we lived in a rural area about a 40 minute
drive from the companies office.)

My wife used to hand the phone to our 2 yeard-old who loves to "talk" on the
phone.