Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site birtch.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!oliveb!felix!birtch!ken From: ken@birtch.UUCP (Ken) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Telephone mailing lists Message-ID: <76@birtch.UUCP> Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 18:20:24 EST Article-I.D.: birtch.76 Posted: Tue Oct 29 18:20:24 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 01:58:19 EST References: <328@aoa.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Birtcher Lines: 24 > In article <370@cylixd.UUCP> dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby) writes: > >A particularly insidious kind of sales call now appearing in several > >cities is one which is initiated by computer, and contains recorded > > . > > . > > These machines are especially obnoxious since they refuse to release your > phone line until they are done with you. > . > . I agree. One of these machines called the number where I work (my boss had a private line to his office, and he was away). It started the recording, and I hung up. IT CALLED BACK!! and started the recording over again. Again, I hung up, and, yes, it called back. The thing would not let me (the phone line) go until it had played the whole message (about two minutes worth). If anyone out there in net_land works at one of these places that use this type of machine, or knows someone who does, tell them to *PLEASE* allow the person who answers to hang up, without being harassed! respectfully, Ken B.