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From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Unsolicited calls... another perspective
Message-ID: <856@terak.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 11:49:38 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  6 11:49:38 1985
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> People on the net tend to have a disturbing lack of empathy
> or even basic understanding of those less fortunate in employment than
> themselves.
> ... Have any of you who so gleefully propose such "punishments" ever
> worked in a boiler room...?

No, and I wouldn't, either.  I have more common decency than that.

> So, although I agree that these unsolicited calls are usually annoying and
> unwelcome, please try to have a little feeling for the human being on the
> other end of the line.

And while we're at it, let's have a little feeling for the Mafia "hit
man".  Even though his unsolicited calls are annoying and unwelcome, he
is just an average Joe trying to earn a living with limited skills.
-- 
Doug Pardee -- CalComp -- {calcom1,savax,seismo,decvax,ihnp4}!terak!doug