[lbo-talk] mobile phones and telemarketers [was: backlash?]

[Cliff Staples]

At 02:45 PM 8/5/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> > Is there any good
> > reason to have a land line anymore?
>
>All this cellphone euphoria is getting to me.  Have you ever used a
>cellphone for an extended period of time?  They suck.  You drop calls,
>people can't hear you, you can't hear them.  They suck.  Suck, suck,
>suck.  And I say that as someone who has had one since 1988 and puts
>about 500 minutes/month on mine.  I've had 7 phones in that time, and
>they all just suck.
>
>Give me a land-line any day.
>
>One thing that has helped quite a bit for telemarketing is to get
>Caller-ID-blocked-rejection service: if they don't give up their
>Caller-ID, they don't get through.  Your privacy-freak friends will take
>a while to get used to dialing the per-call-unblock each time they call
>you, but eventually you'll get quite a bit fewer phone calls.
>
>/jordan

I hate using phones of any kind and find them a necessary evil.  Several 
times my cell phone has cut me off in the middle of conversations I didn't 
want to be having anyway.  Hooray for cell phones.

Cliff 
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