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Re: The telemarketing solution no one sees

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From: Darryl L. Pierce
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 20:31
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Chicago Paddling-Fishing wrote:

> The phone company sells your phone number to the telemarketers
> (they are, after all the only ones who know every phone number),

Actually, it's not *your* phone number. It belongs to the telco. 

> The phone company offers to sell you privacy service, and they'll
> sell you a unlisted number. Whatever choice you make, they make
> $'s and they aren't gonna stop.
> 
> If the "national do not call list" goes into effect, they marketiers
> will just move their call centers to canada, mexico, india or somewhere
> else and they will still call...

I've received 2 calls from Canada and one from India already in the past 
week... 

-- 
Darryl L. Pierce <mcpierce@myrealbox.com>
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Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 20:31:58 GMT
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From: "Darryl L. Pierce" <mcpierce@myrealbox.com>
Subject: Re: The telemarketing solution no one sees
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