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In article <57vqcr$khq@news2.his.com>, keitz@his.com wrote:

>We get those type of phone call all too often! They are telemarketers,
>we called Bell Atlantic thinking our phone had problems and got the
>skinny.  What happened is these telemarkers have a huge room full of
>people and phones with the phone system rigged to call numbers at a
>rapid rate and the call is picked up by whoever in the place is not
>already on a call.  If everyone is on a call and no telemarketer picks
>up the line,you answer the phone and nobody is on the line you just
>hear the sound of the computer.

Does anybody but me think this sort of thing shouldn't be tolerated??  It's
bad enough when a human being calls me, but when a computer calls and
there's nobody there...ARRGH!  Or those calls that start out with a
computer saying "Please remain on the line for--"  I never get past that
point, I figure if they can't have anyone ready to talk to me when I
answer, tough.

I've started telling the people who call (when there is a human being, that
is) that I never buy or participate in anything over the telephone.  A
couple of them have sort of done the audio equivalent of a double take, and
then said "I don't blame you, actually."
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Kevin Michael Vail             |      you gave me wings
kevin@vailstar.com             |                    but took the sky