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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 00:31:20 EST
- From: lvc@cbvox1.att.com (Lawrence V Cipriani)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Sad to Say, Telemarketing Works
- Message-ID: <telecom12.925.4@eecs.nwu.edu>
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 925, Message 4 of 9
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- In article <telecom12.920.8@eecs.nwu.edu> burgoyne@access.digex.com
- (J. Robert Burgoyne) writes:
-
- > 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.
-
- Then those of us who think autodialers are a pain in the you-know-what
- just have to put up with it because someone else likes it? Harumph.
-
- > 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.
-
- I view these types of calls in the same category as junk mail and the
- "plastic bag of coupons and junk" left on my door stoop. I don't want
- it and I'm tired of dealing with it week after week. I've asked for
- it to stop and it just keeps coming. Telemarketing calls are just so
- much electronic litter [which by the way, there are laws against and
- free market economics is not opposed to as far as I know].
-
- BTW, Some mail carriers will not deliver 4th class junk if you ask
- them, but it is illegal for them to not deliver it.
-
- > 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.
-
- This is what we've resigned to do. We let our answering machine
- screen all calls; a hassle but it works.
-
- > A free market capitalist to the core ...
-
- So am I.
-
-
- Larry Cipriani, att!cbvox1!lvc or lvc@cbvox1.att.com
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