Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site terak.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!hao!noao!terak!doug 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 Article-I.D.: terak.856 Posted: Wed Nov 6 11:49:38 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 08:27:56 EST References: <29f06ff0.a51@apollo.uucp> Organization: Calcomp Display Products Division, Scottsdale, AZ, USA Lines: 17 > 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