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From: tim@opoxsrv.i.intel.com.ogc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Computer phone soliciters
Message-ID: <473@gandalf.littlei.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 89 21:13:27 GMT
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Reply-To: tim@opoxsrv.i.intel.com (Timothy E. Forsyth)
Organization: Intel Corp., OEM Platforms Operation, Hillsboro, OR
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In article <3735@attcan.UUCP> hjespers@attcan.UUCP (Hans Jespersen) writes:
>In article <3366@sdsu.UUCP> roetzhei@sdsu.UCSD.EDU (William Roetzheim) writes:
>>week!  Any suggestions for how to wreck havoc with a computer solicitor?
>If they leave a return phone number you could always set up your modem 
>to give them a call (say every minute on the minute for an hour). Such

You would have to plan ahead for the following,

Keep a tape recorder handy near the phone (or use the answering machine's
tape) and record the whole computer solicitor's message, including the
pauses (with no answers).  Then call the number given (be sure it will not
cost you any money to call, there are some setups that get you to call
their 900 or 976 number and you will get charged $$$, I mean many dollars!)
when the operator answers the phone, play back the computer solicitor to
him/her.  It might freak them out to get a call from their own "computer"
:-) ;-)

Tim Forsyth
tim@opoxsrv.i.intel.com
OEM Platforms Operation, Intel Corp., Hillsboro, OR