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From news.Arizona.EDU!math.arizona.edu!CS.Arizona.EDU!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!uwvax!calypso.cs.wisc.edu!cargille Tue Aug 23 13:59:53 1994
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Path: news.Arizona.EDU!math.arizona.edu!CS.Arizona.EDU!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!uwvax!calypso.cs.wisc.edu!cargille
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From: cargille@calypso.cs.wisc.edu (Allan Cargille)
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Newsgroups: uwisc.general,wi.general,alt.consumers.free-stuff
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Subject: how to eliminate, brush off telemarketing calls
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Followup-To: uwisc.forum
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Date: 22 Aug 1994 20:36:25 GMT
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Organization: University of WI, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.
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Distribution: usa
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Message-ID: <33b289$9cg@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
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NNTP-Posting-Host: calypso.cs.wisc.edu
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X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #3 (NOV)
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Hi, I was really getting frustrated by telemarketers until I found
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the information below. I thought others might appreciate it as well:
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Consumers have a right request *not* to receive telemarketing calls.
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The Direct Marketing Association has a "Telephone Preference Service"
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list. You can only get on the list by writing them. They also do not
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acknowledge your letter (at least, they didn't ack mine). You can
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write them at
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DMA
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P.O. Box 9014
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Farmingdale, NY 11735
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Include your phone number, and tell them you do not want to receive
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telemarketing calls. This should probably also include the signature
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of the person who has the phone in their name.
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Another thing you can do to reduce telemarketing calls is to get in
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the habit of never including your phone number on any warranty cards,
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information requests, etc -- or, if you do, indicate that you do not
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want the information sold or redistributed.
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Then when people call, if it sounds like a telemarketer ("Hello, is
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this Mr. Cargille?"), just ask "Who's calling, please?" When they
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identify themselves and start to go into their pitch, just interrupt and
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tell them you prefer not to receive telemarketing calls. Also ask
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them to please take you off their list.
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This has markedly decreased the number of nuisance calls we receive,
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and now I can brush them off without my blood pressure going up.
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Hope this helps,
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allan
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C. Allan Cargille "MadTown" (Madison), Wisconsin cargille@cs.wisc.edu
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"In other national news this week, another thirty thousand preborn babies
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were legally ripped into small pieces or poisoned to death."
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