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From: scott@blueeyes.kines.uiuc.edu (scott)
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Subject: Re: More on " Here's how to CONTROL YOUR JUNK MAIL"
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Date: 30 Jan 91 19:03:55 GMT
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In article <1991Jan30.044552.24573@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> djb@mailer.cc.fsu.edu (David Brightbill) writes:
>
>I tried the "Private Citizen" method of controlling junk phone calls
>recently.  When the marketing droid started making her pitch, I asked
>for her visa card number. 

I like it!!

>[...] I told the supervisor that I was offering a 
>service to telemarketers and that for $500/call, I'd listen to his pitch
>and tell him what I though of it.  He verified my phone number and said
>that his next call was going to be to telelphone security...he threatened
>to have my phone service disconnected because I was running a business 
>from a residense phone. 

My response woud have been "What makes you think this is a RESIDENCE phone?"

;-)

>Anyhow...nobody has called to offer me family portraits since.  

And results are all that really count! 


-- 
Scott Coleman                                                      tmkk@uiuc.edu

"Unisys has demonstrated the power of two. That's their stock price today."
       - Scott McNealy on the history of mergers in the computer industry.