Re: Wind energy a boon for farmers - tenfold returns !

From: Richard Henry (rphenry_at_home.com)
Date: 11/28/04 

Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 06:08:04 -0800

<jmfbahciv@aol.com> wrote in message news:OJednbbtXZa0IzTcRVn-1Q@rcn.net...
>
> That doesn't work here. What does work is turning the ringer of
> the phone off completely. After some time (I never tested to see
> how long it took), the telemarketing programming marks the phone
> number as unowned. One of these days, I'll measure how long this
> marking takes to permeate throughout the telemarketing biz phone
> lists.

We're on the "don't call" list. It works rather well. I remember one call
from a phone company, who are apparently exempt because we have a phone. I
made a lot of noise, and they put me on their private don't call list.
Charities and politicians still call. I either hang up, or when feeling
mischievous, answer politely and then put the handset down on the table for
5 minutes or so.

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