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From: ka@spanky.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: A serious flame against telephone solicitations
Message-ID: <459@spanky.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 28-Aug-83 16:39:13 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 28 16:39:13 1983
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I agree that people/organizations that use the phone to solicit sales are
abusing the system.

A few years ago a bill was introduced in congress to make it illegal to
solicit via telephone people who had told the telephone company that they
did not want to be solicited.  (Soliciters would have to buy a list from
the telephone company.)  I don't think that this bill ever when anywhere.
There are laws on the books prohibiting obscene or harassing phone calls.
It's possible that these could be applied to solicitations, although I
suspect not.

If anybody out there in netland does sometimes buy things in response to
telephone solicitations, I hope that next time they consider saying yes
to a solicitor they will remember that one sale may encourage the solic-
itor to call a hundred other people who have do not want to be called.
					Kenneth Almquist