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From: rhoads@oasys.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Phone calls selling stuff
Message-ID: <125@oasys.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 13:03:43 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 16 13:03:43 1985
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> >
> Sorry, even an unlisted number probably won't do the trick.  In
> most cases, the salesmen are simply going through every combination
> of the 10,000 numbers on a given prefix.

This doesn't make sense to me, since most of the time I get these calls,
the person at the other end says "Hello, Mr. Hollowell?", or (even worse)
"Hello, Jim?".  These people are not going randomly (or they wouldn't
know a name) OR by the phone book, since my name is listed as Rhoads
Hollowell, and to date not one person has asked for "Rhoads". (Only
"Jim" -- my first name is James)

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Rhoads Hollowell    {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires![oasys!]rhoads

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