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From: duncan@geppetto.ctt.bellcore.com (Scott Duncan)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: telephone solicitors
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Date: 18 Jan 89 17:26:37 GMT
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In article <2780@ficc.uu.net> jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell) writes:
>
>I'm curious as to why there is such hostility to telephone solicitors.
	[...]
>With computer solicitation, if you don't care to buy, just
>say so, or hang up.  
>
	[...]
>pursuade you to be polite.

Well, I have two problems with such solicitations:

	1) The one's by machine where they expect you to cooperate with
	   their effort to sell you something but give you little or no
	   chance to engage in any discussion, i.e., THEY are saving money
	   by doing it via a message machine but YOU are expected to spend
	   your time listening;

	1) The one's done by people who do not allow you to say NO thanks
	   before they finish their prepared message or argue with you a
	   bit about saying so.  I dislike being put in a position where I
	   must be impolite by hanging up on a real person.

Speaking only for myself, of course, I am...
Scott P. Duncan (duncan@ctt.bellcore.com OR ...!bellcore!ctt!duncan)
                (Bellcore, 444 Hoes Lane  RRC 1H-210, Piscataway, NJ  08854)
                (201-699-3910 (w)   201-463-3683 (h))