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From: nielsen@hplabsc.UUCP (Walter Nielsen)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Telephone mailing lists
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Date: Tue, 19-Nov-85 14:38:06 EST
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 > > But, still, what makes you apparently believe that you have the RIGHT to
 > > intrude, uninvited, upon people in their homes?  
 > > 
 > I have the right to call any telephone number in the phone book. (That's 
 > why their is a phone book). 
 > ....     
 > You have the right to hang up on me. If you
 > don't want your privacy invaded, a. Dont have a phone  b. Unplug it when you
 > don't use it.
 > 
 
> Bob Nebert                                        
> sdcsvax!bmcg!bobn

Bob, I have an idea, why don't you post your home phone number on the
net for everybody.  Or better yet, maybe everybody could just look it up
in the phone book and call you to continue this discussion.  After all,
if you don't want your privacy invaded, a. Dont have a phone b. Unplug
it when you don't use it. And we do have the right to call anyone in the
phone book (right Bob ??).

Seriously, where did you get this preverted notion that solicitors have
a right to call anybody in the phone book and make a sales pitch ? Can
you imagine if more and more companies started to revert to this type
of advertising ?  Imagine getting one of these calls every 2 or 3 minutes  
all day and night !! That is why I am rude to telephone solicitors, 
to discourage this practice NOW !!   I'm sure if they found too many
people abusive, they could always get a job at McDonalds or something.
But the point is to let them know that what they are doing is very
obnoxious to most of the public.  

Walter Nielsen
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