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From: dave@rlgvax.UUCP (Dave Maxey)
Newsgroups: net.consumers,net.flame,net.legal
Subject: Re: Junk Phone Calls
Message-ID: <1818@rlgvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-Mar-84 00:00:14 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 19 00:00:14 1984
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Organization: CCI Office Systems Group, Reston, VA
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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." They further
state that this code is "through voluntary compliance" and also that if
you have a complaint it should be referred first to the telephone company
and next to "the Complaint Committee of the Virginia Telephone Solicitation
Ethics Council for further action." They also list rules about identifying
who they are, what firm they are from, not employing deception or fraud
and responding to questions in a forthright and nondeceptive manner.

Nowhere do they actually state that phone solicitation is a crime or that
solicitors could be prosecuted for badgering people. This seems to indicate
that there are no laws in our area. Besides, even if there were, how do you
prevent something like that across state lines?

			- Dave Maxey (alias tbm)
			{seismo,mcnc,brl-bmd,allegra}!rlgvax!dave