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- Date: 26 Dec 1992 05:58:07 GMT
- From: burgoyne@access.digex.com (J. Robert Burgoyne)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Sad to Say, Telemarketing Works
- Message-ID: <telecom12.920.8@eecs.nwu.edu>
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 920, Message 8 of 11
- Lines: 44
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- haynes@cats.UCSC.EDU (Jim Haynes) writes:
-
- > First, lets hope the judge recognizes this as a tragedy-of-the-commons
- > situation. [reference to Garret Hardin's highly influential essay "The
- > Tragedy of the Commons" in which he shows how an act which is
- > insignificant when performed by one person becomes devastating to the
- > community when everybody does it] Second, the fact that people
- > actually respond to her sales pitch is, well, sickening. Maybe
- > instead of crusading for a national list of people who don't want to
- > receive telephone solicitations, we should crusade for a list of those
- > who do want them, and permit only the people on that list to be
- > called.
-
- Now just a moment.
-
- Many people make their living through various telemarketing, both
- inbound and outbound. I don't, but can understand and appreciate their
- arguments.
-
- The telephone is an undeniably essential tool of business. And the
- role it plays and the services it provides are dynamic. Simple
- mechanisms exist to prevent autodialers from reaching you. But others
- see the autodialer as providing them with useful products and/or
- services, and thus they don't object to the auto-calls, and further,
- they respond to the offers.
-
- We don't need more regulation. This country needs to rid itself of
- regulation. This country needs to have more of its citizens accept
- some minimal level of responsibility without resorting to whining for
- the government to always do something.
-
- If you don't like outbound automated calls, do something about it. As
- my Dad says, there is no law which says that you must pick up your
- phone when it rings.
-
-
- A free market capitalist to the core, I am,
-
- J. Robert Burgoyne Maryland FYI Laurel, Maryland
- 301-317-0726 24 Hours burgoyne@access.digex.com 301-317-0587 FAX
-
- Have a Happy, Happy Holiday this year!
-
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