Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site akgua.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!glc From: glc@akgua.UUCP (G.L. Cleveland [Lindsay]) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Junk Mail Unlisting - (nf) Message-ID: <620@akgua.UUCP> Date: Sun, 11-Mar-84 15:57:11 EST Article-I.D.: akgua.620 Posted: Sun Mar 11 15:57:11 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Mar-84 05:23:30 EST References: <1008@inmet.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Technologies, Atlanta Lines: 31 In addition to junk mail coming via the Postal Service, we have had a rash of *telephone* junk mail here in the Atlanta area. These are firms with automatic sequential dialers which hook up to a recording that gives you their pitch and then hopes you will respond after the "beep" with your name and address for them to follow up. My telephone hookup is installed for my own personal purposes. I have no desire for it to be used as a means of interrupting me by some advertiser. Also annoying is to get these calls at the office. I can put a "No Solicitors" plaque on my front door and if some door-to-door salesman ignores it, I have recourse to legal action against him. Does anyone know if a similar provision is available with their local telephone company where one can list one's line as "off limits to solicitors"? Have there been any instances of municipalities successfully legislating a prohibition against such intrusive harrassment? I would appreciate any substansive information which I could use to approach our local officials. It would really be great to turn this problem off before it gets out of hand. Cheers, Lindsay Lindsay Cleveland (...{ihnp4|mhux?|clyde}!akgua!glc) AT&T Technologies/Bell Laboratories ... Atlanta, Ga (404) 447-3909 ... Cornet 583-3909