Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: siegman Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Junkmailed! Message-ID: <9279@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 25 Jun 90 16:28:02 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: Stanford University Lines: 21 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 453, Message 13 of 15 In article <9223@accuvax.nwu.edu> news@accuvax.nwu.edu (USENET News System) writes: >In my view, unsolicited business ("junk") phone calls are a lot more >serious a nuisance than junk mail. When you get junk mail, you can >just throw it out ... so very little time is wasted... >... Junk phone calls, on the >other hand, can interrupt you at any time, even when you are asleep, >and you have no legal recourse. Hear, hear!! Postal junk mail performs a potential service; let it bloom (so long as it pays its fair share of postal costs). Junk phone calls are an unmitigated annoyance, and should be banned. My solution (when the answering machine doesn't solve it first) is to say, "Wait a minute, I've got to turn off a stove burner"; spend as long away from the phone as I think the caller will tolerate; then _politely_ tell them we absolutely boycott any busines, or charity, that uses telephone solicitation.