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From: tomczak@harvard.ARPA (Bill Tomczak)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.music,net.music.classical
Subject: Re: Noise pollution (flame)
Message-ID: <424@harvard.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 02:17:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: harvard.424
Posted: Wed Oct 16 02:17:40 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 18-Oct-85 20:08:19 EDT
References: <1227@ihuxe.UUCP> <494@scirtp.UUCP>
Reply-To: tomczak@harvard.UUCP (Bill tomczak)
Distribution: net
Organization: Aiken Computation Laboratory, Harvard
Lines: 16
Keywords: MUZAK while on hold
Xref: linus net.flame:11445 net.music:8459 net.music.classical:1027
Summary: Get back at those suckers

In article <494@scirtp.UUCP> todd@scirtp.UUCP (Todd Jones) writes:
>  * Muzak while being put on hold * This is this ultimate piss-off.
> 	     When I am holding, I hate listening to two-hundred bored
>	     musical never-beens butchering a Lennon/McCartney tune.

The next time you are put on infinite hold and hear controlled
garbage hang up and dial again. Keep on hanging up and dialing back
until they catch on and don't put you on hold any more.  I don't know
if you actually get a quicker response, but at least it gives you
something to do and you don't have to listen to your favorite music
destroyed.  The only time I couldn't use this was with Liberty Mutual
insurance several years back.  Their line was always busy and the one
time I finally got through, they put me on hold for 45 minutes.  I was
afraid to hang up and get another busy signal.

Bill Tomczak@harvard.{ARPA, UUCP}