Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!pprg.unm.edu!hc!lll-winken!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: anon@nowhere Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: (none) Message-ID: Date: 12 Feb 89 20:15:41 GMT Sender: news@vector.UUCP Lines: 25 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 59, message 6 of 6 From: bill@cosi.UUCP (Bill Michaelson) Subject: Re: Nuisance phone calls Date: 12 Feb 89 19:34:08 GMT Organization: COS, Inc., Lawrenceville, NJ In article , len@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Leonard P Levine) writes: > Could not the phone company be asked/required to institute a tarrif that > bills the caller 3 times if the called party hangs up first? I think you're on to something here... Let me take this a step further... What if a subscriber could specify a fee for accepting calls? Ideally, one would be able to register known call originators, where calls would be accepted for no charge. Unknown originators would receive an announcement informing them what fee the call recipient has set, and would be given the opportunity to abort the call if it was unacceptable. I'd be happy to talk to salespeople on the phone, if they were willing to pay my rate. I'd be thrilled to talk to computerized callers, and I would have no objection to giving telco a hefty cut of the proceeds! -- Bill Michaelson - Reply to: princeton!mccc!cosi!bill also at... Voice 609-771-6705 CompuServe 72416,1026