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From: byron@archone.tamu.edu (Byron Rakitzis)
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Subject: Re: Caller ID problems
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Date: 31 Mar 91 04:53:58 GMT
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Ed Hall writes:
>
>What's worse, telemarketing organizations tend to move around fairly
>frequently anyway--they'll have a whole new set of numbers to bombard
>you from.  After Caller-ID, they can even do this intentionally.
>

You make it sound like telemarketing outfits are organizations whose
sole intent is to harrass you. I think it's obvious that obnoxious
salesmen are not the ones who will be making sales. Furthermore, having
spoken to people who have worked for telemarketing operations, I can
tell you that caller id will probably not affect their m.o. all that
much anyway: these businesses work by calling numbers at random, or
by taking a page out of the phone book and calling everyone on that
page. How does caller id help them there?