I understand your solution to be, in a practical sense:
You initially listen to a call long enough to determine if the caller
is important.
You might occasionally be enticed by a marketing pitch, if so inclined.
Your choice.
You might consider Caller ID to help you decide how carefully to listen.
Caller ID sometimes misleads. (your bank might be important, a refi
pitch, or an important refi pitch.
After you use judge the call unwanted, you make it difficult,
uninteresting, and uncomfortable to communicate with you.
If only email end-users could do the same....
Nevin
On Jul 22, 2004, at 2:14 PM, John Keown wrote:
For telemarketers I have a wonderful solution.
When the telemarketer calls just say in a very loud oriental voice "
HE NO
HERE! several times. They always hang up first.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart(_at_)bmsi(_dot_)com>
To: <spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com>
Cc: "Nevin Williams" <nevie(_at_)nevster(_dot_)net>
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: [spf-discuss] Is SPF serving the best interests of the
end-user?
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 spf(_at_)nevster(_dot_)net wrote:
However, an unlisted number standing alone in a sea of listed numbers
is obvious by its absence. Those can be casually picked on for
high-pressure sales tactics, for wouldn't someone who was trying to
limit inbound calls feel more strongly about calls received, and be
more likely to be caught off-guard?
Precisely. They have pressured my wife into doing ill advised things.
Every one in the house from the 6 yo on up is now trained to
immediately
and loudly say "Please remove us from your call list" and hang up
without
waiting for the tele-spammer to pause or give an acknowledgement.
o Too many of my friends and family use Windows, and so giving them
my
email guarantees that it will end up in the spammer lists. Some of
my
family members cope by changing their email every month. I don't
have
to
do that, because I require authentication in any of various forms,
including SPF.
You're managing your communication in a way that makes sense to you.
Your family is doing the same.
Can family can reliably contact you even though they change addresses
once a month?
Yes - my address stays constant.
Can you contact them reliably?
No. I have to call them up and ask what their new address is.
Can you or have you figured out a way that does not exclude each
others
preference for email management that you're all comfortable with, to
keep in touch?
No, because their mental model of an email account is that it "wears
out".
--
Stuart D. Gathman <stuart(_at_)bmsi(_dot_)com>
Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703
591-6154
"Confutatis maledictis, flamis acribus addictis" - background song for
a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial.
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