[LINK] Fwd: MR30/2010: Re-register now to avoid telemarketing calls [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Roger Clarke]

At 18:41 +1100 11/3/10, Stilgherrian wrote:
>So, they should answer the phone. And politely say "Sorry, I'm not 
>interested", whether that's about helping at the trading table or 
>buying a product.
>I stand by what I said. That a call is wrong if it's about "grubby 
>commerce" is Victorian middle-class pretension. People are being 
>precious.

A lot of the population is that way, and always will be.  You're 
getting taken in by the upbeat, techno-hip environment you operate 
it.  (Sorry the adjectives are so 80s and 90s).

Or I could try it within that segment's own terms:  in an era when 
people are increasingly time-poor, they want to interact with the 
people they want to interact with, not the cretins who populate the 
direct marketing world.

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