Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site proper.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!proper!gam From: gam@proper.UUCP (Gordon Moffett) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Junk Phone Calls Message-ID: <1052@proper.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Mar-84 01:42:19 EST Article-I.D.: proper.1052 Posted: Tue Mar 6 01:42:19 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 3-Mar-84 10:07:59 EST References: <537@sdcsvax.UUCP> Organization: Proper UNIX, San Leandro, CA Lines: 13 I, too, have received these junk phone calls, and was furious about it. Usually I have gotten the trail end of the `dialog' on my answering machine. Since it is all OK by the phone company for them to do this, my usual [only?] recourse is to call the company which is using the calling machine and let them know how angry I am about it, in addition to pointing out how I am now very unlikely to buy their product or use their services because of what I consider to be an insult. ("Machines should speak only when spoken to!") This gets to the heart of the matter, as I assume the goal is to gain potential customers, not lose them.