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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
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Posted: Sun Mar 11 15:57:11 1984
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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