If people find all these calls to be such a nuisance, and an "unwelcome"
intrusion, blah, blah, blah.... The simplest response would be to simply
not give their number to anyone!! This is what I have done, and my home
life is blissfully unblighted by unwanted calls. To my certain
knowledge there are only six people who know my home no., mother,
brother, partner, boss, two best friends. For anyone else, the only
contact no. I give is my mobile.
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Smith, Tony
Sent: 19 August 2005 10:19
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Subject: [Maybe Spam] Re: [data-protection] Silent Calls - are the DMA's
new rules right?
More importantly than people finding the calls a nuisance, what about
older/disabled people who rush to the phone and injure themselves by,
for example, falling down a flight of stairs. I would ban the calls.
However, if the government insists on keeping them, they should leave a
message saying something along the lines of "if you do not want to
receive any more of these calls, ring 0800xxxxxxxxxx"
Tony
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From: Simon Howarth (WSL) [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 19 August 2005 10:10
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Silent Calls - are the DMA's new rules right?
>Another personal opinion is that if the DMA is supporting wider use of
>autodiallers then they ought to change their name to the Direct
>Nuisance Association
I agree entirely with this! The DMA should be ashamed of itself if this
is the case, and rest assured if I meet any DMA representatives, they
are going to have to answer a lot of questions on this subject from me.
About a year ago we had a run of silent calls (every evening for about
two weeks), and this started to frighten my wife as I work away
sometimes and she was alone when some of these calls came in. Whoever
was doing this had very poor systems, and I quickly fathomed what was
going on, to the great relief of the family. We still get occasional
silent ones, but now know to just put the phone down. Also if I answer
the phone and there is a perceptible silence before someone speaks to
me, I state straight away, that I believe they are using systems that
promote silent calls and as such I do not wish to speak them any
further; I did used to ask to talk to a manager, but this usually blew
the operators minds....
I understand the need for marketing of products and services, but
unfortunately my experience of the professionalism of this bunch of
people has been very mixed; from ultra professional to downright
childish.
The DMA should be ensuring that at least for those organizations it can
influence, they stay within the bounds of decency - it's not so much
about the law, but as someone said earlier, it's about respect for
people.
Simon Howarth.
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