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  • From: "Bill Geschwind" <geschwin AT email.unc.edu>
  • To: "'InterNetWorkers'" <internetworkers AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: How I got rid of one spammer
  • Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 15:10:19 -0400


KJ,

I'll answer this email in more detail once I have more time, but in the
meantime the tone of your message makes me wonder: have YOU ever worked
as a telemarketer?

- Bill

> -----Original Message-----
> From: K. Jo Garner [mailto:kelly AT metalab.unc.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 2:49 PM
> To: InterNetWorkers
> Subject: [internetworkers] RE: How I got rid of one spammer
>
>
> On Thu, 16 May 2002, Bill Geschwind wrote:
> ->they don't provide me that information then I would not be able to
> ->talk to them and just hang up. Then, if I do get that
> information from
> ->them, I would ask them to tell me all about whatever it is they are
> ->peddling,
>
> Well, I'm sure this has been mentioned to you before, but
> these people are
> just doing their jobs. Most are underpaid, most are trying to support
> themselves/their families etc., and most use - big drum roll
> here - not
> their real names.
>
> We rarely get junk phone calls at home, but when we do get
> one, we ask to
> be placed on their no-call list, get the name of the business, and
> politely thank them for doing so. Even with our phone number
> listed in the
> phone book, I'd say we get maybe -- maybe -- 2 calls every
> few weeks. And
> most of the time they come in as "Unidentified
> Name/Unidenified Number"
> calls (yay caller ID) which we just don't answer.
>
> Why are you answering the phone during dinner anyhow? I mean, I had a
> friend who was wanking and he answered the phone whilst doing
> that, and it
> was his pastor on the phone. Talk about a let down! Finish
> what you're
> doing then open up the lines for incoming calls, or get
> voicemail/caller
> ID/an answering machine. Sheesh.
>
> Cheers
> KJ
>
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