Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!cires!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Junk Phone Calls Message-ID: <245@opus.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Mar-84 15:35:35 EST Article-I.D.: opus.245 Posted: Mon Mar 19 15:35:35 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 21-Mar-84 02:17:37 EST References: <822@machaids.UUCP> <195@felix.UUCP> Organization: NBI, Boulder Lines: 14 <> > Junk phone calls really don't bother me much. I can > identify a junk call very quickly in the following manner: > "real" callers always ask for someone in residence at my > home. Junk callers just start their schpiel... Actually, I have found that junk calls often begin with "Mr. Dunn?", so I'm immediately on my guard. However, it ain't quite that simple - and I almost hung up on someone from Sierra Club (of which I'm a member) because the conversation started out that way. One of the sure-fire criteria (so far, anyway) is that if the caller says, "How are you?" I gather that it's a junk call. Usually a response of "Why do you need to know?" produces an entertaining effect. -- {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd