[LINK] anti-telemarketer devices

[Roger Clarke]

Jan Whitaker <jwhit@PrimeNet.Com>
>Black boxes help zap telemarketers
>Thursday, October 10, 2002 Posted: 9:55 AM EDT (1355 GMT)
>http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/10/10/blackbox.reut/index.html
>...  Consumers looking for peace at dinnertime have a variety of 
>options other than handing off the phone to the toddler.  ...

They forgot to mention using the soccer referee's whistle that you 
keep beside the phone for those 'heavy breathing' callers;  and that 
favourite of was it Robin Whittle or Greg Taylor? - 'just a moment 
please', and put the phone down on the table for 5 minutes.

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