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From: rcd@opus.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: junk phone calls
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Date: Thu, 19-Jul-84 20:11:28 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 19 20:11:28 1984
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>Why don't we just outlaw telephone solicitation?
>...
>Actually, now that I think of it, I would probably leave
>it legal for non-profit organizations to do telephone
>solicitations, they need all the help they can get.

Obviously you've never been called early in the morning by a machine
spouting a recording of ultra-fundamentalist religious nonsense.  I have.
Thanks, but if we get rid of telephone solicitation, let's get rid of ALL
of it; I'm no more in favor of someone selling me cheap philosophy by phone
than of them selling me storm doors by phone.

Of course, if you think you can outlaw telephone solicitation, you don't
understand the relative money involved in
	(a)  telephone sales
	(b)  owning your very own legislator
-- 
Dick Dunn	{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd		(303)444-5710 x3086
	...I'm not cynical - just experienced.