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Re: Ultimate Revenge on Telemarketers

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From: George Grapman
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 14:48
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Shawn Hirn wrote:
> In article <1161725081.731055.260860@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com>,
>  "rick++" <rick303@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>>   Between the Do Not Call law and the privacy manager I get very few
>>> sales calls.
>> Unfortunately political campaigns are non-profits and clogging my phone.
> 
> I am on dozens of organizations' phone lists, both political and 
> non-political charities. I simply don't answer my phone unless the 
> Caller-ID display indicates the caller is someone I know. Hell, even if 
> the caller is someone I know, I still feel no obligation to interrupt 
> whatever I might be doing to answer the phone.
> 
> Stop being a slave to your phone and those calls won't clog your phone 
> line.

   I have the privacy feature an only a few "unknown number" calls get 
through which I never answer and which rarely leave a message. The call 
from the candidate showed a local number.

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