Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: optilink!cramer@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Clayton Cramer) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Coping With Junk Calls: Like Nancy, Just Say No Message-ID:Date: 25 Sep 89 23:45:39 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA Lines: 35 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 407, message 6 of 6 In article , chip@vector.dallas.tx.us (Chip Rosenthal) writes: > tad@ssc.UUCP (Tad Cook) writes: > >X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 384, message 3 of 5 > >If they ask, "Is this Mr. Cook?", I say, "No, he's dead!" > > Boy...I was on the other end of one of those. I was staffing the phone > bank for a political campaign last fall. I was working off old contact > sheets rather than cold calling. But apparently the contact sheets must > have been *very* old. The person I talked to was pleasant about it, but > I sure felt crummy. > Chip Rosenthal / chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US / Dallas Semiconductor When I was hunting heads, many years, we would get together one night each month and call people who we were unable to locate at work during the day. In some cases, the resumes were very, very old. I called one such resume, over a year old, and asked for Mr. So-and-So. "I don't think that's possible." "Why?" "My husband's been dead for over a year now." "I'm so sorry to have bothered you." I was almost done calling for the evening, and that finished the evening. I wouldn't assume the contact sheets were old -- dead people vote with great regularity. Voter lists are purged in California of non-voters after general elections. Once, while walking precincts (for my own election campaign), I found that the person registered to vote had been dead four years -- long enough to have been purged, unless someone was voting in his place. Oh well -- vote early, vote often! Clayton E. Cramer {pyramid,pixar,tekbspa}!optilink!cramer What shall it be today? Watch Three's Company? Or unify the field theory? Disclaimer? You must be kidding! No company would hold opinions like mine!