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Re: 4
Four? That's it? Bah! Amateur! We get that many before noon! :-) We don't answer anything that is "Out of Area" on our caller ID anymore. I'm trying to convince my wife we don't need a land line at all -- the ratio of worthwhile calls to calls we don't answer skews way to the side of worthless. BTW, when your phone rings, there's not really anyone on the other end -- yet. The telemarketers use predictive dialers to eliminate time "lost" to dialing, ringing, no answers, busy signals, etc. That's why there's a pause when you answer -- your call is being routed (in a second or less) to a live person. if you answer a telemarketer's call and hang up, the dialer knows you're a live number. If the number never answers, eventually you get off the rotation. For that telemarketer, at least.
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