"Kalmia" > wrote in message
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On Thursday, May 2, 2013 4:29:54 PM UTC-4, Cheri wrote:
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> if I happen to be close by the phone and
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> don't recognize the number, I just pick the phone up and immediately hang
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WRONG!!!! This tells them there IS a live body at that number and you're
less likely to be deleted from their lists. Aw, heck, on 2nd thought, I
doubt they have sucker lists. Their equipt. just dials thru entire
exchanges and hope for some schnook to pick up.

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Oh well, I'm not that often by the phone, and if they persist, I put them in
the reject file of my Caller ID that I purchased from Radio Shack years ago
for a hundred dollars, a wonderful invention worth every penny (but no
longer made) that cuts them off at 1 1/2 rings so they don't even reach my
answering machine.

Cheri