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Skriven 2015-03-19 13:37:00 av TIM RICHARDSON (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av JOE DELAHAYE
Ärende: Cell phones and Fido
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On 03-19-15, JOE DELAHAYE said to MICHIEL VAN DER VLIST:

JD>Re: Cell phones and Fido
JD>By: Michiel van der Vlist to Dale Shipp on Thu Mar 19 2015 13:44:32

MV> Too bad your "do not call list" is so ineffective. Here I only refuse
MV> calls that show no caller ID at all. Parties that violate the "do not
JD>call MV> list" do not send a caller ID, because thet would expose them.
JD>The fines MV> are pretty high. Of course for parties outside The
JD>Netherlands it can bnot MV> be enforced, but here the language barrier is
JD>an advantage. Apparantly MV> telemarketing is not effective across
JD>national and language barriers. It MV> used to be a pest, but the only
JD>calls in English I get these days are from MV> "Microsoft".


JD>It is rather ineffective here as well.  They have simply shifted the call
JD>centers to other countries.  We now get calls from Americal call centers
JD>hired by Canadian retailers etc.  or by the call centers in Pakistan or
JD>India.  Not much we can do about it.


We get that here too.


The friggin' phone rings (typically when I'm out in the kitchen with a hot
lid in one hand, turning something in the pan with the other)...I get to the
phone, and some foreign voice speaking in broken English starts telling
me about this great deal on a reverse mortgage...at which point I hang up.


I got a phone setup that has an `answering' feature, and also shows a read
out of the person calling.


When the phone rings I look at the readout and it tells me who and where
the call is from.


I can answer or not. If I'm busy at the moment I just let the answer feature
take care of it.


It also has a `playback' feature, and an `erase all calls' feature.


Many times the phone rings and the readout tells me the call is from like...
Vermont (I don't know anyone there)...or Connecticut (don't know anyone
there either).


When I'm sitting here at my desk and the phone rings I look at the readout
to see who it is before answering. Sometimes it says `caller not identified'
which probably means they have set their equipment to not identify their
call origin (as mine is set).


But my phone equipment saves me a lot of trouble.


BTW....there are various `don't call' lists here in California, as well as
a national `don't call' list. But I am not on them. Reason being...I let
my answering feature `answer' a call. That way the call `costs' somebody
money for the call somewhere without producing any positive results for
them. It costs me nothing, and costs THEM for a long-distance call!





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