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Re: Tormenting Telemarketers (was Re: Caller-ID discussion)

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From: John Iacoletti
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 19:16
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In article <86209@ut-emx.uucp>, llama@tramp.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine) writes:
|> wow, so clever. and funny. really. tormenting people who are trying to
|> make next month's rent in a fairly hellish job always turns me on.

Spoken like someone who used to be a telemarketer.  I thought his post
was very amusing, although I doubt I would actually try it.
 
I know they're just trying to make a living, but if they're going to
waste people's time, they shouldn't be too surprised that people will
want to waste theirs as well.

Here's a thought:  If my carpets need to be cleaned, I'll call a
carpet cleaner myself.

-- 
John Iacoletti       IBM AWS Austin       Internet: johniac@austin.ibm.com
        My opinions do not reflect the views of the IBM Corporation
"Why should I be tagged with the epithet 'loony', merely because I have a pet
 halibut?"
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From: johniac@johniac.austin.ibm.com (John Iacoletti)
Subject: Re: Tormenting Telemarketers (was Re: Caller-ID discussion)
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Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:16:36 GMT
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