Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1991 14:22:39 GMT From: Peter da Silva Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: "Hello, I'm Digit-Dialing ..." Message-ID: Organization: A corner of our bedroom Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 292, Message 3 of 10 Lines: 29 jpp@tygra.UUCP (John Palmer) writes: > Woman: "I'm telemarketing." > I go on to bawl her out for invading my privacy and tying up my > business line. I hand her some line about how that is illegal and that > she better not call me again or I'd call the police. She politely says, > "Thank you. Goodbye" a. It's not illegal. It is less than honorable to feed her a line like that. b. Personally, I would have thanked her for being so honest about what she was doing, and for taking the time to skip the rest of my group. All you're doing here is encouraging sleeze. c. Your organization has a history of doing the equivalent of telemarketing on Usenet, so why were you so bent out of shape over this? > Hmmmm. Someone wrote a very bad telemarketing script for her. They > actually told her to be *HONEST* about it!! Honesty is considered a negative characteristic at Detroit Direct Marketing Inc. That explains a lot. peter@taronga.uucp.ferranti.com