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From: Mike Coleman <twinsun!coleman@uunet.uu.net>
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Subject: Re: Sierra Club Considered Harmful!
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Date: 6 Sep 90 15:48:38 GMT
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>[Moderator's Note: I can't help but wonder if the Sierra Club was
>doing this or if they had farmed it out to some telemarketing
>organization. If the latter, you really should not take it out on the
>Sierra Club until you are sure they are aware of, and approve of the
>techniques being used. The organization may have not known how
>obnoxious their agents were on the phone.   PAT]

 From the standpoint of the call recipient, it's completely irrelevant
that the call is coming from an agent of the SC rather than then SC.
If I were to receive the kind of treatment the original author
describes, I might well cut them off forever with a letter describing
the reason, and that would be more than fair.

Would we consider the I. Stohrs fiasco to be any less serious if it
were the work of a telemarketing agency working on behalf of the
courthouse?  I doubt she would think so.

For the record, I'm a member of the Sierra Club and generally feel
that they are a fine organization.  I'm very dismayed to hear this
story.


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