Julia Thompson wrote: > >If you're getting tired of home-improvement home solicitations, the >quickest way to get away from them is tell them that you rent. > No, no, no.
This is the wrong strategy.to deal with phone spam. Just remember *always* that phone-spammers have *two* benchmarks: (a) they must sell (b) they must annoy the maximum number of people per given time period. Since we will keep (a) in zero, we must do our best to keep (b) in the minimum. And those phone spammers are programmed to never hang up the phone. So, this is what I do: I keep giving evasive answers, with the phone sufficiently far away from my ear that I can't hear what he/she is saying, but I can sense when he/she is silent. I do this while I am reading e-mail, watching TV, or reading a book. It's very funny to see despair inserting in the phone spammer's voice, when he/she slowly groks that I will not buy anything, but that I will not hang up the phone either. I think after a loss of 5 minutes - a time where he/she usually annoys 60 people - those phone spammers blacklist my phone number forever <evil grin> Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
