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From: HAMER524@ruby.vcu.edu (Robert M. Hamer)
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Subject: Telemarketers: Saying No is the Easy Part
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Date: 24 Oct 90 14:48:00 GMT
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PAT (our esteemed Moderator) about telemarketers:

>one on the phone and have to say no ... so frigthened by telemarketers 
>are they that they go to such extremes: published lines where are
>never answered; non-pub lines which route through an answering machine
>for screening first, etc.  Do like Nancy: Just say no (and hang up).  PAT]

Hey, I'm not afraid to say no.  In fact, I can get quite nasty -- I
ask the caller for a supervisor and then ask the supervisor if I can
have his/her phone number so I can call him/her at home to bother
him/her.  I use my answering machine to screen so I don't have to
interrupt dinner to answer a telemarketer or wrong number, or get up
from the living room to go to the foyer to answer.  (Pat -- I may be a
sort of telecom freak, but I only have five phones on the main line,
and don't have one just under my hand while I sit in the living room.)