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Article #2199Re: Telemarketing: Is it ever acceptable?
From: Karl Pollak
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 00:00
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 00:00
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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. If you can find out which number they are being sent from, a complaint to the telephone company usually does the trick. Karl Pollak <kpollak@portal.ca> Richmond, British Columbia
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