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Re: Telemarketing: Is it ever acceptable?

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From: David Reilley
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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From: dreilley@pinc.com (David Reilley)
Subject: Re: Telemarketing: Is it ever acceptable?
Date: 1996/10/28
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