Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!apple!bionet!hayes.ims.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: jgt10@uts.amdahl.com (John G. Thompson) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Dealing with Telemarketers Message-ID: <14866@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 19 Nov 90 23:40:50 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: "John G. Thompson" Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 33 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 837, Message 3 of 9 In article <14702@accuvax.nwu.edu> Tom Neff writes: >ME: What number are you calling from? >TM: Um... urgh... errr... um.... Well have you heard about our blah > blah blah....? In a smiliar vein I had a Pac*Bell TM call me. ME: Hello. TM: May I speak to Mr or Mrs Thompson? ME: Speaking. TM: You recently received some mail from us and I would like to talk to you about the offer. (Something like that.) ME: I'm sorry, but we haven't received anything from Pac*Bell recently You'll have to call us back when we get it. TM: Oh. Thank you. On talking with my wife we did get some add from them weeks ago, which we had promptly thrown out. John G. Thompson Amdahl Corporation jgt10@uts.amdahl.com P.O. Box 3470 MS 340 {sun,uunet}!amdahl!jgt10 #include Sunnyvale, CA 94088 1-408-737-5708