Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: John Higdon Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Automated Salesmen Message-ID: <11255@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 23 Aug 90 18:47:51 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 29 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 589, Message 8 of 8 Steve Cirian writes: > Last night, I had a call from a computer at Kodak, trying to sell me > something. After listening for a few moments, I lost interest, and > hung up. I tried to call a friend a minute or two later. To my > surprise, the recording was still going, and there was nothing I could > do to break the connection. If you have three-way calling, you can always flash the switchhook and make a call in that manner. My favorite method of handling these people provides double satisfaction. Although you theoretically cannot transfer a call outside of a Commstar group, there is a way to "trick" the switch into allowing a call to be transferred to another telephone within the control group (switch). In preparation for the hapless junk computer call, I prepare a list of slimy businesses that have telephone service served by applicable prefixes. This being a bedroom CO, there aren't many, but I managed to scrape up two or three. When the XYZ Portrait Offer calls, I simply transfer the call to Big Al's Used Cars or some such. It is no longer tying up my line and it gives Big Al something to do! John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@bovine.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !