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From: christensen@apollo.uucp (Wendy Christensen)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Phone-line-grabbing junk callers
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Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 14:40:55 EST
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From (Mark Rosenthal @ Adaptive Optics Assoc., Cambridge, Mass. USA)
> These machines are especially obnoxious since they refuse to release your
> phone line until they are done with you...

This practice is not only obnoxious, but also potentially dangerous. One night,
I got such a "junk" call during my Girl Scout meeting. The recorded caller
did not relinquish my phone line for over six minutes. (I timed it.) I had
nineteen kids in the house. What if I had to call the paramedics or the fire
department? Six minutes can be a LONG time in an emergency.

w. christensen