Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!netsys!vector!nobody From: glee@cognos.uucp (Godfrey Lee) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Nuisance phone calls Message-ID: Date: 23 Jan 89 16:26:47 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 18 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 31, message 5 >>I believe the time has come to do something about nuisance phone calls. >I found after I installed an answering machine, that junk callers >usually hang up when they realize they got an answering >machine. Problem is that there are more and more automated phone solicitations. With these you don't get the satisfaction of hanging up on them, and if you have an answering machine, you get junk filling up your tape! I do sense some consumer rebellion on this though, I got a few of them about a year ago, but lately have gotten none, what is the situation in the rest of Canada and in the U.S.? -- Godfrey Lee P.O. Box 9707 Cognos Incorporated 3755 Riverside Dr. VOICE: (613) 738-1338 x3802 FAX: (613) 738-0002 Ottawa, Ontario UUCP: uunet!mitel!sce!cognos!glee CANADA K1G 3Z4