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From: bobn@bmcg.UUCP (Bob Nebert)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Telephone mailing lists
Message-ID: <1943@bmcg.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Oct-85 15:16:37 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 15 15:16:37 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.  I find that these interruptions
> are very irritating and annoying.  Even before the new
> phone books came out and my name was not listed, I was
> receiving these kinds of calls.
> Does anyone know how one gets on these lists, or possibly how
> to get off them short of having an unlisted number? 
> Maureen Chew
> SCI Systems
> {akgua, decvax}!mcnc!rti-sel!scirtp!maureen

Until you do get off the lists (If you can. Some companies make a living
by selling these lists) do what I do. If somebody calls me and mispronounces
my name I politely say he/she has the wrong number. If they dont know my name
they dont know me. If they get pass that hurdle the first thing I say is
"I rent". That gets rid of a lot fast.