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From: edhall@randvax.ARPA (Ed Hall)
Newsgroups: net.consumers,net.flame,net.legal
Subject: Re: Junk Phone Calls
Message-ID: <1747@randvax.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 9-Mar-84 17:03:50 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  9 17:03:50 1984
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Just cutting off calls from a particular number won't do much good.
The average phone solicitor is sitting in a room with a dozen or
two other phone solicitors, each with his/her own phone.  And each
of these phones has its own number.  Chances are the next time you
are called by that organization it will be from a different number.

I try not to be too snotty to phone solicitors, as I know what
kind of hellholes they work in.  (No, I've never *been* one, but
I've *known* some.)  It ain't easy being one of the most un-loved
people around.  So when I get called, I just say I'm not interested,
I never will be interested, and have a nice day anyhow.  Nothing
I do is going to keep me from getting called the next time someone
gets assigned my page in the back-directory.

		-Ed Hall
		decvax!randvax!edhall