Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Ge' Weijers Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Phone Solicitations (Ag Message-ID: <1901@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 6 Dec 89 16:27:07 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 26 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 557, message 4 of 11 iiasa!wnp@relay.eu.net (wolf paul) writes: >And that is the thing which needs to be outlawed -- it should be >prohibited to place calls to random numbers. If the direct marketers >want to use the telephone, let them research their prospective >customers, and call only numbers where they know at least the name of >the private individual (if that's their target) or business (another >legitimate target) who happens to be the subscriber. It would be enough if public opinion would consider those who use unsolicited phone calls to be unreliable. Never deal with companies that use phones in such an intrusive way. Let them go broke. Don't give the courts something extra to do. A nice technical solution: put a 'what-a-jerk' button on every phone, by using the # or * keys. If you're annoyed push it. If a telephone subscriber gets too many black marks he is disconnected, except for emergency numbers. Ge' Weijers Ge' Weijers Internet/UUCP: ge@cs.kun.nl Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, (uunet.uu.net!cs.kun.nl!ge) University of Nijmegen, Toernooiveld 1 6525 ED Nijmegen, the Netherlands tel. +3180612483 (UTC-2)