My favorite thing to do with telemarketers is (if I have the spare time)
just listen to the sales pitch and sound interested as if I wanted to
buy their widgets or whatever they are selling. Then when they want a
credit card # tell them hold on while I go get my wallet. Just set the
phone down and continue with watching tv or eating dinner. It doesn't
take too long before they will give up.

There is also a web site where the author posted a clever script where
you start to turn the tables on the telemarketer and actually start a
conversation where you ask how long they have been doing this, etc. It's
a good bit of reading. If anyone wants, maybe I can dig it up. Mark

Harold & Susan Vordos wrote:
Is anyone besides me getting a spam from Korea which you can't get rid of
it? Twice now I have received one, which, once clicked on to delete,
automatically sends you to a porno web site. Once there, there's no way to
get rid of it, at least not with my limited experience with computers.
Three times I just turned off the computer then waited while it did a
Scandisk to verify for errors. Out of frustration, I finally deleted the
Korea folder, which got rid of the email, then remade the Korea folder.
For the past year I've been shuttling the spam from Korea to a folder, where
I do a bulk delete to simplify getting rid of the unwelcome garbage. It
makes me wonder aloud why I didn't (and now don't) simply send them to the
deleted items file.

Can't speak for anyone else, but I'm about up to my ears with junk mail and
spam. So far as the phone goes, I no longer answer it. We screen the
calls with a message on our answering machine that tells friends to identify
themselves, and for solicitors to hang up, that we do not accept calls from
solicitors. It's surprisingly effective. Only about a half dozen
solicitors have talked to the machine in the past year or so. For the
most part, they comply by hanging up. Still, it's clearly a PIA to have to
resort to such tactics. Seems we, the law abiding citizens, have given up
all our rights so those that prefer to live outside the law are guaranteed
they collect all of theirs. I clearly do not see how anyone has the right
to disrupt my privacy, especially in an attempt to sell me aluminum siding,
for which I have absolutely no need.

At what point will the lawmakers pull their heads out of their asses?

Comments?

Harold