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- From: Jeff Wishnie <jwishnie@taligent.com>
- Subject: Re: Telephone Message DELIVERY / Answer Center
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- X-Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 13:32:21 GMT
- Organization: Taligent, Inc.
- References: <1992Nov11.211855.6278@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 21:36:29 GMT
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- Scott is right. Congress passed a law severly restricting the use of
- automatic dialers/and recorded announcement players.
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- Not only are these machines really annonying, they can be dangerous. In
- one case, a telemarketter took down a hospitals entire phone system by by
- dialing every extension, in order and playing a recorded message.
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- Maybe if the people you plan to call could sign a release of some sort.
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- But your biggest problems will probably be legal, not technical.
-