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From: sdo@trsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Junk Phone Calls - (nf)
Message-ID: <70900001@trsvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-Feb-84 02:07:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Feb 29 02:07:00 1984
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trsvax!sdo    Feb 29 10:07:00 1984

There was one nasty version of the automatic calling machine.  It would
call you up, give you its speach and wait for a responce.  If you hung
up during the speach, it would call you back again and again, until
it delivered the entire speach.

It seems that one day this machine called up a phone number connected to
an answering machine.  So the calling machine phoned the answering machine.
Both machines gave out their pre-recorded messages at the same time.  Then 
the calling machine waited for a responce.  Since the answering machine was
waiting for a message, there was no responce.  The calling machine noted 
this, and called the number again, repeating the process over and over and
over.

The punch line to this story is that the call was long distance, so the
advertizer was billed for 5000 long distance calls to the same number and 
the advertizer retired the calling machine.