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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Telephone Solicit.: flagging directory not solution
Message-ID: <22@ttidcc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 15-Nov-85 14:54:46 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 15 14:54:46 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 16-Nov-85 07:28:19 EST
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Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Organization: The Cat Factory
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Summary: 

In article <2611@ut-ngp.UUCP> werner@ut-ngp.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) writes:
>>>                     ...It is easy to put up a sign in front of your
>>>house saying no salespeople, but how do you do the same thing with the
>>>phone. ...
>>
>>                                ...  The phone company, and other directory
>>publishers,  should  have  a service where a special character is placed by
>>your entry in the directories (especially the  reverse  directories).  Said
>>character  to  be  the  equivalent  of a "No Solicitors" sign on your door.
>
>Nope, this won't work well.  Solicitors don't usually look you up in the
>phone-book, but use lists developed by marketing companies.  And computers
>dialing you up ....

Shouldn't make any difference.  It's the responsibility of the solicitor to
check  whether  you  want  to receive such calls or not.  How they do it is
their problem.  Just having to do it should put a dent in the industry.

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