Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxw.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxw!kalm From: kalm@ihuxw.UUCP (James ) Newsgroups: net.consumers,net.flame,net.legal Subject: Re: Junk Phone Calls Message-ID: <743@ihuxw.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-Mar-84 16:18:54 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxw.743 Posted: Tue Mar 20 16:18:54 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 21-Mar-84 08:46:56 EST References: <253@teldata.UUCP>, <1818@rlgvax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 35 > From ihnp4!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!dave Wed Dec 31 18:00:00 1969 (1969? Whew, this one's been hanging around a long time!!) > Subject: Re: Junk Phone Calls > Message-ID: <1818@rlgvax.UUCP> > Date: Mon, 19-Mar-84 23:00:14 CST > Organization: CCI Office Systems Group, Reston, VA > Here in northern Virginia, C & P has listed the following in their phone > books under Consumer Rights and Responsibilities: > > "The Virginia Telephone Solicitation Ethics Council, composed of > consumers, business, government and regulated telephone industry repre- > sentatives has endorsed a Code of Ethics for telephone solicitation in > the Commonwealth.... " > > One of the rules listed requires that telephone solicitors "make telephone > solicitations only between the hours of 9 a.m. and 9 p.m." - Dave Maxey (alias tbm) > {seismo,mcnc,brl-bmd,allegra}!rlgvax!dave This covers only "Telephone solicitors" not "junk phone calls" which are those that are sent with automatic dialers and recorded messages. THAT particular practise is to my mind a most obnoxious intrusion upon my privacy which I would be willing to advocate a general boycott (of the telephone company if necessary) in order to eliminate. The mail box full of catalogs of overpriced claptrap is about as much annoyance as I can take. They should be expicitly OUTLAWED at any time of the day or night! Anyone feel likewise? -- Jim Kalmadge IX 1c415 8-367-0475 ihuxw!kalm