Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 9/27/83; site hplabs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!paull From: paull@hplabs.UUCP (RP ) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: re:junk phone calls Message-ID: <2519@hplabs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Mar-84 17:28:23 EST Article-I.D.: hplabs.2519 Posted: Wed Mar 7 17:28:23 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Mar-84 01:12:42 EST Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto CA Lines: 19 . What I do to avoid telephone solicitors is use an answering machine to intercept all incoming calls. The machine allows you to listen to the callers message. If a friend is calling you can simply pick up the phone and talk. I've found that most solicitors will hang up as soon as they realize that THE'RE listening to a machine. If a solicitor manages to get me in person I either tell them that 'I already have central air-conditioning' or that they have the wrong number. When they call back in 10 seconds, I've switched on my answering machine to intercept them. :-) [ Fighting back thru ingenuity not govenrment controls ] Rob Paull , KA6SFV HPL Palo Alto, CA.....