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Re: Wrong number fun (was RE:Informal WB Store Survey)
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Thu, 3 Feb 2000 17:18:03 GMT
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Will Middelaer wrote:
We have even more fun with tele-marketers, but that can wait for another day.

Was it hear or somewhere else where someone was telling about how
someone started telling a telemarketer about their plan for suicide or
something and caused quite a commotion?

--
Frank Filz

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  Re: Wrong number fun (was RE:Informal WB Store Survey)
 
(...) I don't recall that. but I DO recall a rather elaborate points based game (1), posted to some newsgroup or another, that one could play with telemarketers. This: (URL) a rather watered down version with a lot of the best parts missing. I can't (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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  Wrong number fun (was RE:Informal WB Store Survey)
 
(...) We have a phone line at work that for years was hooked up only to a modem. It is totally unlisted, and there is no legitimate reason for any right-number calls to come in on this line. It is, however, on our phone switch as an extra outgoing (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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