John,

Consider it from our point of view:

We can see, recognize, and delete junk email.

We can see, recognize, and dispose of junk mail.

We cannot, however, recognize "junk" phone calls, so we have to answer them
all. Admittedly, my thinking is tuned to the calls that we receive from
"unknown" numbers, each of whom is a potential client. Not to mention the
call that we received late one night from a total [but totally blessed]
stranger who called us after reading the phone number on the collar of our
dog, who had just been hit by a car.

Just my $.02 worth,

Anne Lurie (too doggoned stubborn to choose a "cute" screen name or email
address after all these years)
Raleigh, NC



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Snooze wrote:
"Anne Lurie" wrote in message
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Also, I recommend the TeleZapper that we have attached to our primary
[and
business] line -- although we were prepared to disconnect it if
clients
complained about the [brief] tone, very few have asked us about it; most

of

those who did asked if we were taping the calls [no], and all were
supportive of our effort to free ourselves of telemarketers.



Telezapper doesn't work as well as it used to. The telezapper simulates
the
tone that the phone company produces on phone numbers that are out of
service. It worked fine for while, atleast until telemarketing companies
modified their predictive dialers to recognize the difference between a
line
that is truely out of service, and one that is connected to a
telezapper.

Not like any of this makes a difference if millions of our knuckleheaded
countrymen continue to respond to surveys or buy good from those that
call
our house. I suspect the value of a DNCL is minimal. It is extremely
easy to
relocate a call center offshore and continue to do business as usual.

Sameer


one news report i saw telemarketer being interviewed said they woulld
step up Email solicitation to make up the diff
so look for junk mail to go way up come Oct
thats all we need more junk mail

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John Rutz
Z5 New Mexico

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