Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bmcg.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!bmcg!bobn From: bobn@bmcg.UUCP (Bob Nebert) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Telephone mailing lists Message-ID: <1982@bmcg.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 12:20:44 EST Article-I.D.: bmcg.1982 Posted: Mon Nov 11 12:20:44 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Nov-85 20:40:00 EST References: <1042@mtuxo.UUCP> <504@ittvax.ATC.ITT.UUCP> <1971@bmcg.UUCP> <10903@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1876@orca.UUCP> Organization: Burroughs Corp. ASG, San Diego, CA. Lines: 22 > > My wife works night about three times a week. > > When she doesn't she does telephone surveys for a marketing research > > company. She announces herself, what she would like the callee to do, > > which is watch a tv program, and say that someone would call the next > > day to get their response. > > > I experimented with a number of schemes, but now, as soon as I > determine that it's a junk phone call, I hang up. I don't slam down > the phone, I don't say anything (rude or otherwise); I just minimize > the instrusion. Fortunately Oregon has a law requiring all junk > callers to identify their purpose within the first thirty seconds. > > -=- Andrew Klossner (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew) [UUCP] > (tekecs!andrew.tektronix@csnet-relay) [ARPA] Thank You Andrew, that is the point I was making. Wish more people had been like you. If these phone calls are offensive to someone just hang up. Why be a baby and perform kindergarten pranks to get even. Get even with who? My wife just shrugs and figures these people didn't have enough grey matter to make a desicion anyway. ------ sdcsvax!bmcg!bobn bob nebert