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To: Jim S who wrote (3127)	7/9/1999 2:10:00 PM
From: Ed Forrest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17683

>> If more people would follow this advice, the cold callers would soon decide it is not worth the effort and stop bothering me when I sit down to eat supper. jim<< I'm from the AOL thread and this thread was mentioned last night due to a post by Voltaire on AOL.My response to your way of handling "cold calls" is as follows:Your way would indeed work but,human nature being what it is,most people will say "thank you but I'm not interested ,goodbye".That said,I think that people should always do and say what their most comfortable with. Regards Ed Forrest

To: Jim S who wrote (3127)	7/10/1999 9:39:00 AM
From: Guy E. Fleming	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17683

Jim: An interesting approach to cold calls. In your experience, do they actually send you the material and written confirmation of promises made or do they just move on to another potential "investor"? Do they bother you with subsequent follow-up calls? Speaking of unsolicited calls, the alarm system folks are the worst and most annoying. When my wife answers such a call, she simply "tests" our system over the phone after saying, "here, I'll let you listen to it, if you don't believe me!" The blast gets them off the phone real fast!