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# I demanded they send me the details of the company they
purchased my details from. Assuming I get it, that's when the fun will really start.
(, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 20:00, archived)
# have you registered with Call Preference?
if you do that and you get called by a signatory company, they become liable for a £4000 fine...
(, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 20:02, archived)
# I never get cold-called
which is a shame, because I want to use this: www.xs4all.nl/~egbg/counterscript.html (GC).
(, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 20:03, archived)
# I had a landline connected so I could get broadband
it's x-directory, the only person who has the number is dutchbird.
It was disconnected for 2 years, and I am already getting calls from withheld numbers.
I haven't answered them yet, as they ring when she's still on her way home, but I may get a copy of that and test it out.
(, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 20:07, archived)
# Y'know, there's a mailing preference site.
It takes a couple of months to kick in after you register, but it does work - even Capital One don't send me crap any more:

www.mpsonline.org.uk/mpsr/html/default.asp
(, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 20:35, archived)
# Yeah
Fuck the System
(, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 20:05, archived)
# It's not that.
I just enjoy being rude to strangers on the phone.
(, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 20:06, archived)
# I don't really see you as a counter-culture
revolutionary, for some reason.
Being rude to strangers does sound more in keeping
(, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 20:08, archived)
# The anonymity fits well with my cowardly nature.
(, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 20:11, archived)