[LINK] Phone firms told to stop being pests

[David Boxall]

On 16/01/2009 at 2:18 PM grant at apc.org.au wrote:
> On Fri, January 16, 2009 11:04 am, matthew at sorbs.net wrote:
>> ...
>> I'd be happy to hear of any sure fire plan to get rid of them for good.
>
> You already have it - put them on hold. Works a charm.
>
> If you're at home, put the phone down and walk away. They soon learn that
> you'll waste their time, blow their stats and get them in trouble.
...
"They" never learn.  My experience since putting my number on the Do Not 
Call Register is that calls stopped - but not permanently.  Calls come 
in waves, sometimes two or three in a day, always at lunch or dinner 
time.  There'll be a couple of weeks of pure hell, then maybe a month of 
blissful peace.

I use an answering machine - with a message telling telemarketers to 
never call again - so I don't know who's making the calls, just that the 
phone rings enough to be a bother.  One type of call has stopped 
completely: auto-dialled recordings, where their robot talks to my robot 
so I end up with a message consisting of the last part of a recorded 
sales pitch.

I heartily wish I knew the location of the soulless devil-spawn 
responsible for invading my home.  I'd happily organise delivery of an 
appropriately powerful nuke.
 
-- 
David Boxall                    |  All that is required
                                |  for evil to prevail is
                                |  for good men to do nothing.
                                |     -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)