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Re: Telemarketing: Is it ever acceptable?

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From: Gordon Mulcaster
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 00:00
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In article <552trm$719@thoth.portal.ca>, Karl Pollak writes:

> 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.

I'm assuming the company that sent the junk-fax included some contact 
information in the fax (otherwise why bother?) Call them and ask the 
receptionist for their fax number.

> If you can find out which number they are being sent from, a complaint
> to the telephone company usually does the trick.

Get call display for your fax line.
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        gordonm@portal.ca
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From: Gordon Mulcaster <gordonm@geocities.com>
Subject: Re: Telemarketing: Is it ever acceptable?
Date: 1996/10/28
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