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From: lws@hou2d.UUCP (lwsamocha)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Telephone mailing lists
Message-ID: <768@hou2d.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Oct-85 15:52:24 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 15 15:52:24 1985
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>I often get calls between 7:30-8:30 in the evening from people
>trying to sell something.  They try to sell everything from
>funeral plots to light bulbs. 
>Does anyone know how one gets on these lists, or possibly how
>to get off them short of having an unlisted number? 

Unlike many people, I enjoy receiving these calls!
I will listen, quietly and attentively- even murmuring "Yeah, Oh,
really?" or "How interesting!".
Then I will say something like-
"Why this is really something I can understand (or need or whatever,
Excuse me, I'd like to write some of this down."

Then I put down the receiver.
After fifteen minutes, they're gone.
 
After aggravating a couple of salesmen, your name is tagged on lists
as a trouble-maker and the calls will drop off.

You'll derive much self-satisfaction too!
 
 
LWS
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