gauthier@ug.cs.dal.ca (Paul Gauthier) (01/19/91)
Living in Nova Scotia, Canada I find I'm not bothered nearly as often as many of the posters in more populous areas of the states claim. This evening I got a rare call from a telemarketer trying to sell me magazine subscriptions. It opened with "You have been selected _randomly_ to win a wonderful $30 prize ... (blah blah blah)" And then continued through the most boring mindless drivel I have ever heard. I let her talk for a minute since I wasn't all that busy. Eventually I told her I wasn't interested and she hung up. Just for something to do I dialed my phone-number plus 1. ie, say I'm 555-1212; I called 555-1213. Sure enough, it was busy. A minute later I called again and asked the woman who answered if she had been bothered by a telemarker just then. She confirmed so I eplained who I was and why I had called. She too was annoyed by the call. I should have tried to follow this person up the exchange for some fun :-) This is one of the first experiences I've had with a telemarketer who was so blatently pushing wares in so uncreative a fashion. Paul Gauthier | gauthier@ug.cs.dal.ca President, Cerebral Computer Technologies | tyrant@dalac.bitnet Phone: (902)462-8217 Fax: (send email first) | tyrant@ac.dal.ca