 | | Re: Durned Telemarketers!
|
|
(...) Ok, maybe it's just another instance of how I live some wierd sort of ideal world(1), but I don't suffer from this plague. My wife does get a few during the day; she estimates once or twice a week, but I don't get the "nightly torrent". If we (...) (22 years ago, 27-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
| |
| | Re: Durned Telemarketers!
|
|
(...) My state (Colorado) just passed a "no call list" (URL) where your telephone number is entered into a database. Telemarketers are required to buy updates (I think quarterly) of the database and are fined for each number that is called on the (...) (22 years ago, 27-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
| |
| | Re: Durned Telemarketers!
|
|
(...) I don't wish to contradict you, but we've been saying that exact phrase in response to the four or five nightly telemarketers for about the last three years, and there's been no dropoff. While I was in college I had a number of friends who (...) (22 years ago, 27-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
| |
| | Greg Palast has some interesting things to say...
|
|
(URL) don't really have anything to add here, I just found some of his stuff compelling. I am guessing, probably correctly, that right wingers will not probably enjoy his material. I found what he said about information and capital interesting. I (...) (22 years ago, 27-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
| |
| | Re: Durned Telemarketers!
|
|
We don't get very many telemarketing calls at all. Why? We know the magic words: "Put us on your do not call list." If you say this to every telemarket who calls you, you will find that the frequency of telemarketing drops off precipitously, to the (...) (22 years ago, 27-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
