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From: george@sysvis
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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
Message-ID: <-1988571@sysvis>
Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 15:12:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 30 15:12:00 1985
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> Has anybody developed an effective method of "reverse harassment" to
> deal with those airheads who infest apartments and who enjoy letting
> everyone within earshot have the benefit of their stereos?  
> 
> I get no support from my other neighbors who are too intimidated by these
> modern-day visigoths.
 
A more personally directed sort of maneuver is to call the offenders over
the telephone and ask them to stop playing it so loudly as it is causing
extreme discomfiture at your location.  As soon as the volume is returned
to its original level, set your computer to auto-dial the offending telephone
number every minute or so until the noise is again reduced.  Even if this
is more Pavlovian than you might normally be, you will have trained your
neighbors to turn it down as soon as the phone rings.  ***Note:  Make sure
that the computer re-dials the number after every answer until the music
is turned down.  The silence on the answered line is further conditioning
as to what is desired behavior.  If they are able to determine the volume
level at which the telephone does not ring, you will have been successful.


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