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From: hpubvwa!ssc!tad@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Tad Cook)
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Subject: Re: Sierra Club Considered Harmful!
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In article <11732@accuvax.nwu.edu>, boulder!boulder!bobk@ncar.ucar.edu
(Robert Kinne) writes:

> I also plan to contact appropriate federal officials to
> seek a total ban on telephone solicitation, which has grown to
> comprise at least 20% of the incoming phone calls at my home.  Others
> are encouraged to do the same.

I have been using an interesting technique with phone solicitors
lately.  I start asking THEM questions right away.  I ask for their
name, and of course they just give me their first name.  Then I ask
for their last name, and act like I am writing it down.  What really
puts the fear of God into them is when I ask for, and then demand,
their home phone number!  Of course, they wont give it to me, and I
ask them why it is so unreasonable for me to call them at home, since
they called me at home!

The call always degenerates into:

1. They wont give me their home phone number.
2. I wont talk to them unless I can return their call AT THEIR HOME.

So far, it's been a lot of fun!


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