[mod.telecom] Computerized Sales Call Gets Stuck, Ties Up Phone for Three Days

werner@NGP.UTEXAS.EDU (Werner Uhrig) (10/24/86)

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RISKS-LIST: RISKS-FORUM Digest,  Tuesday, 22 October 1986  Volume 3 : Issue 84

Contents:
  Risks of using an automatic dialer (Bill Keefe)
  ....

  Computerized Sales Call Gets Stuck, Ties Up Phone for Three Days

     GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) - A shipping broker who does all his work
  on the phone says he lost at least one deal because a computerized
  sales pitch called him nearly every two minutes for 72 hours, tying
  up his lines.

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