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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
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Posted: Tue Mar  6 01:42:19 1984
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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.