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Article #2198Re: Telemarketing: Is it ever acceptable?
From: David Reilley
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 00:00
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 00:00
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In article <552trm$719@thoth.portal.ca> kpollak@portal.ca (Karl Pollak) writes: >Gordon Mulcaster <gordonm@geocities.com> wrote: >>In article <cjOay8UdGPGf088yn@vcn.bc.ca>, Lyle Craver writes: >>> All your information about telemarketers is interesting. Can we use >>> the same method to nail some of those bastard "fax broadcasters" >>> to the wall? >>Find out what their fax number is and fax them a multi-page document >>explaining why you don't want any further junk-faxes... >>-- >Common sense advice, Gordon, but it mostly doesn't work. These fax >broadcasts are mostly done by a 3rd party, not the advertiser himself. >They are often broadcast from a multi-modem PC with receive disabled. You could always try to fax your complaint to the advertiser's toll-free voice number. Set your fax board for an infinite number of retries, and eventually they will jack-in a fax machine to receive your complaint.
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