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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 21:18:43 GMT
- From: mailrus!gatech!eecom!wberbeni@uunet.UU.NET (W. Berbenich)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Solicitation Slime
- Message-ID: <telecom12.631.2@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: Georgia Tech
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 631, Message 2 of 13
- Lines: 31
-
- In article <telecom12.621.5@eecs.nwu.edu> John Higdon <john@zygot.
- ati.com> writes:
-
- > This afternoon, my private line rang with someone who identified
- > himself as being from the {Chronicle}. I said, "I'm sorry, I do not
- > accept solicitation on this line", and hung up. The phone immediately
- > rang back and I was greeted with, "Rude dickhead [slam]". Since then
- > there has been a stream of one-ringers.
-
- One thing that may work, in the absence of CLASS services in your
- area. Next time a solicitation call occurs like this, be very
- cheerful and friendly and establish the identity of the caller. Once
- that is done, lower the boom and tell them not to call back. You have
- a name to go along with a date and time of the call now.
-
- "This sounds very interesting! What did you say your name is?"
-
- > Needless to say, I have notified the {Chronicle} concerning this. And I
- > have now been convinced that telemarketing is a practice that needs to
- > be eliminated -- by whatever means.
-
- Either that or just set up a data base of phone numbers for which the
- subscribers are willing to accept 'cold calls.' All other phone
- numbers are off-limits. Here in Atlanta, the big sequential-dial pest
- (at least for me) is Olan Mills Photo Studios. I am about to send
- them a letter asking them to please not call me.
-
-
- Bill Berbenich - School of EE, DSP Lab
-
-