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From: brian@sdcsvax.UUCP (Brian Kantor)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: A flame against telephone solicitations
Message-ID: <3731@sdcsvax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 3-Sep-83 07:04:33 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep  3 07:04:33 1983
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Back in high school (gawd, what a long time ago THAT was!) I had a
friend who had evidently gotten on some long list of telephone
solicitors.  Not a day went by when he didn't get some kind of a call
selling something.

He found a used electronic police siren at the local police auction.
After Bill connected it to the phone line, it seems that 100 watts of
screaming siren on the line seemed to discourage sales calls.

Its kinda stupid, and cruel to the poor little old ladies who do
solicitations in order to keep the cat from going hungry, and you
wouldn't really want to do that to someone, but doesn't just warm the
cockles of your heart to dream about it!?!?

P.S.  The PhoneCo figured it out (about six months later, which may be
record time for them) and had Bill disconnect it "or else".  Sigh.

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   Brian Kantor, UCSD.  {philabs,ucbvax} !sdcsvax!brian
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