From: Brady_David@Tandem.Com (David Brady)
Newsgroups: misc.consumers
Subject: Re: Revenge on a telemarketer!
Date: 16 Oct 92 20:24:05 GMT
Organization: Tandem, Inc.
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In article <jnrpylj@dixie.com> John De Armond, jgd@dixie.com writes:
>
>Sorry, dear, YOU'RE the one who invaded my privacy, interrupted my
>sleep, supper, TV show or made me get out from under my car to
>answer your telesleeze call.  Even if I were doing nothing more than
>contemplating my bellybutton, one second of that time is worth more to me
>than your whole life as a teleslime.  You are fair game for whatever
trick
>I can come up with to make your personal life miserable.  It is YOU
>who strapped on the headset and started dialing.  It is YOU who
>should be punished.  I'm amazed to read such rationalizations 
>as yours for anti-social behavior.  I suppose by your rationalization
>that it would be OK to, say, steal in order to "survive?"
>
>The things listed to do to teleslime so far have actually been quite
mild.  
>I find the freon boat horn, applied directly to the microphone, to be
>quite effective.  If the teleslime is local, the Caller-ID'd number
>goes in my uucp Systems file for a few days of fun and games.
>
>If you don't like the abuse you receive, then do something else.  Be a
hooker
>or sell crack to children.  Either would be more respectable than
>being a telescum.
>
>John
>-- 
>John De Armond, WD4OQC               |Interested in high performance
mobility?  
>Performance Engineering Magazine (TM) |
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computers? 
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1. I do hope, dear, that you don't use telemarketers to sell me your
magazine.  (See sig above.)  Actually I find your advertisement for
Performance Engineering Magazine (tm) as obnoxious as a phone
solicitation.  It could be argued that the sales methods are quite
similiar.

2. Do you realize you spend more time formulating your message than it
would take to *politely* terminate 10 to 15 calls from telemarketers?

3.  I don't like getting the calls either but I do realize that the
people who are making them are doing a job.  I simply ask them to remove
me from their list of contacts.   Easy - and I don't blow out INNOCENT
people's ear-drums when I do it.  As a result I might get 1 or 2 calls a
month - those are mostly from my long distance company offering me things
I am sometimes interested in.

4. Do you realize that the person you abused has YOUR phone number?  Be
careful when being cruel.  It could come back to you worse than what you
dished out.

5. Remember that your phone is on a PUBLIC phone system and as irritating
as it is, people you don't know (or want to know) will contact you though
the PUBLIC phone system.  You have a few solutions:  One, do not give out
your number unless required.  Two, create your own PRIVATE phone system
and connect your friends up to it.  Three, lobby to make phone
solicitations illegal.  (Good luck with that one.)  Four, set up an
answering machine to answer your phone and have it state that soliciters
will be charged $50 dollars a minute for your valuable time.  If they
don't agree they should hang up now.  Five, don't answer your phone. 
Six, if it is still far to inconvienent to politely say "I'm not
interested" throw your phones away.

6.  Finally, I'm starting a fund to help hookers sell crack to children. 
Can I have your phone number to contact you for a donation?  [big ol'
smiley goes here]

Chill out man.
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