Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site teldata.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!zehntel!tektronix!uw-beaver!teltone!teldata!ted 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 Article-I.D.: teldata.249 Posted: Wed Feb 29 14:13:53 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 5-Mar-84 00:36:42 EST References: <537@sdcsvax.UUCP> Organization: Teltone Corp., Kirkland, WA Lines: 24 ******** 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.