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From: ddw@cornell.UUCP (David Wright)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Types of unsolicited calls
Message-ID: <5219@cornell.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-Sep-83 13:08:23 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  2 13:08:23 1983
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From: ddw (David Wright)
To: net-flame

I've had varying reactions to calls, depending on what they were for and
what I was doing when the call came in.  Like Lauren, I was once hit by
a political opinion poll (either the NY Daily News or NY post, I don't
recall which) during the 1982 campaign.  This, I felt, was pretty neat
and it happened at a convenient time.  On the other hand, those people who
call you at 9 am (when rational people like myself are asleep) to try to
sell you some useless product do tick me off, although I haven't had any
trouble with them being abusive.  The ones that really bugged me were the
insurance salesmen who called me under the impression that I had recently
gotten married or become a father (David Wright isn't that unusual a name,
and there are several locally).  I'm not married and as far as I know, I'm
not a father either.  I concluded that there must have been some announcement
in the local paper of a marriage or birth that seemed to refer to me.

                         David Wright

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