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From: wmartin@brl-smoke.ARPA (Will Martin )
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Subject: Re: Auto-dialing Falwell
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Date: Wed, 15-Jan-86 15:48:15 EST
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When I first heard/saw this story on TV news some weeks ago, my initial
reaction was, "You mean that there was only ONE person doing this?" It
is such an obvious tactic and so easy to do with an autodialer that I
thought that hundreds of people had been doing it for years. Was it just
that no one else thought of it before? After all, calling 800 numbers
costs you nothing, so it seems a pretty simple and cheap way to get back
at any organization with an 800 number, whether it be a TV evangelist or
some business selling Slim Whitman records or Vegematics. 

If this guy really was the first, I would think that NOW there are
hundreds of people doing it! (Might as well get some good out of your
phone line when you're not home... :-)

Will