Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!sun-barr!rutgers!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: mcvax!jyu.fi!otto@uunet.uu.net (Otto J. Makela) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Fighting Back Against Junk Calls Message-ID: Date: 12 Sep 89 14:23:44 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: "Otto J. Makela" Organization: Grand Hall of Justice, Mega-City One Lines: 20 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 370, message 10 of 10 Over here in the boonies, there are just a few telemarketing companies... This normally works very well, I'm not so sure if it would work with American telemarketing companies (specially with automatic devices :-) (phone rings) Me: "Otto Makela" Salesperson: "Hello, I'm from the Finnish sports association [or something similar]. What are your views on competetive sports ?" Me: "I think that competetive sports is a total waste of time and money." SP (weakly): "Er... in that case I assume you are not interested in our 'Illustrated sports magazine' ?" Me: "Quite correct." SP: "Thank you for your time." (and they never call back) -- * * * Otto J. Makela (otto@jyu.fi, MAKELA_OTTO_@FINJYU.BITNET) * * * * * * * * Phone: +358 41 613 847, BBS: +358 41 211 562 (CCITT, Bell 2400/1200/300) * * Mail: Kauppakatu 1 B 18, SF-40100 Jyvaskyla, Finland, EUROPE * * * * freopen("/dev/null","r",stdflame); * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *