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From: pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov (Peter 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 22:21:33 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.  She got real confused, and started the 
> script over a couple of times.  Then she handed me off to her supervisor
> who listened to my pitch.  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.  Anyhow...nobody has called to offer me family
> portraits since.

Oooh, nice try...  now you could foil the salesdroidsupervisor's angle
by saying that the $500 was the fee for *their commercial* use
of *your private* property (which is the "Private Citizen" approach,
more or less, from their literature).

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