[SEL] OT...Cold Calls....telephone problems

[Bob Willman]

	We installed a ZAPPER from Radio Shack.
It made a world of difference. It beeps when each
call is answered which indicates to the calling
computer that the number has been diconnected.
No more calls from that system. 


Bob Willman
Bowling Green, Ohio
The Eagle's Anvil
WB8NQW

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Subject: Re: [SEL] OT...Cold Calls....telephone problems

Here I'd use caller ID and if they don't let their ID come through, I'd not
answer it.

It's a major problem and the "do not call" lists don't work worth a hoot
either as the caller say "it's their right to free speech to be able to call
anyone for any reason". One time the fellow argued and said "I'm not
soliciting or selling anything, we are just offering these great deals".
What a moron.

And as far as their "right" to call me - BUNK - to me it's like trespassing
if I don't want them on my line.

Automated calls are supposed to be illegal in Iowa, but they come anyway.
Those are the ones where there never is a real person, a computer calls and
when it detects a pickup, it plays a message. Even the political parties use
those here.
You have a heck of a time catching them or tracing them and they know it.

Bill
Runnells, Iowa

> This is something that i am now experiencing but from what i read is 
> something that the US and the UK have had for some time.
> The phone rings and because you have the answer phone connected and 
> the message kicks in after 6 rings you rush to the phone and if you 
> are in the bloody workshop it is even worse ,i.e. you trip over something!
> Anyway when you pick up the phone and say ''hello '' there is no 
> answer, not even the bloody man from Bombay or Calcutta as has been 
> the case[ my solution to the latter is to ask if they can help me with 
> my pet elephant Abdullah ,he has gone off his food].
> Seems these unanswered calls are " Cold Calls, computer generated and 
> used by call centres.Anyone got any good ideas of how to combat this
problem?
> Peter Ogborne
> Little Grove ,Albany
> West Australia
> ''Heart of the Rainbow Coast ''
> jopeter at omninet.net.au
>
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