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Gordon Henderson wrote:
Ah but the joy of putting the phone to one side to get a pen when an breaching call comes in - I've had one poor sucker on the phone from india (?) for almost an hour dropping pens and answering voices off. It doesnt take them long to mark you down as a waste of time..On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Simon Robert wrote:most phone numbers are trivial to find using something called the telephone book! Other details using the electoral register. OK you can be x directory and you can opt out of the electoral register published info, more useful is the "Telephone Preference Scheme", sign up on-line, which makes cold calling by EEC companies illegal. I really don't understand why people are so paranoid about easy to find public info being easy to find public info.Aaah.. the TPS. Something I'm aware of, having customers who might have occasion to use it from the other side, as it were... Self-funded by the industry to the tune of £4,400pa for the TPS and £2,200 for the CTPS (for companies). An excellent way to get a list of a few million numbers to give to your of-shore branch...
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