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From: nickless@flash.ras.anl.gov (Bill Nickless)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Dealing with Telemarketers
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Date: 5 Nov 90 23:46:00 GMT
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A reasonable response I haven't read about yet could be scripted like
this:

Sleaze:   "Is Mr. Nickless available?"  (Or better yet, I live with my 
           recently widowed aunt, and the Sleaze asks for "Mr. or Mrs.
           White....")

Our Hero: "Just a moment, please."

(20 minutes later, Sleaze hangs up in disgust, realizing that it has
lost that time to harass someone else.)  :-)


detour mail to nickless@flash.ras.anl.gov


[Moderator's Note: Based on only one sentence from the person calling,
how do you know it was a telemarketer and not a police officer,
hospital clerk or someone Mr. and Mrs. White *do* need and want to
speak with?  PAT]