They recently covered this technique in a news story on NPR. The reporter explained the whole process and glossed on the technical details. This made it sound all very clever and seemed like we should 'score one for the common man.'
Then they threw in the kicker. The next person interviewed was with a telemarketing company and he claimed they had developed some technology to detect the telezappers and ignore them. This particular person seemed quite proud of this accomplishment. He described an ongoing struggle in which people devise new tricks of tools to divert the telemarketers, but they always mange to come up with something to get through. Hurray for technology! Hurray for the indomitable human spirit!
Makes me wonder why they would invest so much time and research to bypass something that clearly indicates the recipient is not interested. I can only conclude that when they get around all the "No Trespassing/Do Not Enter" signs, sufficient numbers of people actually break down and buy/donate/part with their money.
-DB^2
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This is a variation of one of the old Stupid Altavista Search Tricks called One-Hit Wonder. Several years ago I earned a decent score in that endeavor with my entry:
Ultra-wide sphincter
(At that time, it registered one hit on the Small Business Administration website. Fitting?)
For grins I tried this with Google and got two hits: one was from some sort of scavenger hunt list and the other, of course, turned out to be my listing in the One-Hit Wonder page.
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Nope.
Some creep thinks he's playing that sort of *game* here lately around Washington, DC.
I think I speak for everyone when I say, we don't much care for that level of interactivity.
They recently covered this technique in a news story on NPR. The reporter explained the whole process and glossed on the technical details. This made it sound all very clever and seemed like we should 'score one for the common man.'
Then they threw in the kicker. The next person interviewed was with a telemarketing company and he claimed they had developed some technology to detect the telezappers and ignore them. This particular person seemed quite proud of this accomplishment. He described an ongoing struggle in which people devise new tricks of tools to divert the telemarketers, but they always mange to come up with something to get through. Hurray for technology! Hurray for the indomitable human spirit!
Makes me wonder why they would invest so much time and research to bypass something that clearly indicates the recipient is not interested. I can only conclude that when they get around all the "No Trespassing/Do Not Enter" signs, sufficient numbers of people actually break down and buy/donate/part with their money.
-DB^2This is a variation of one of the old Stupid Altavista Search Tricks called One-Hit Wonder. Several years ago I earned a decent score in that endeavor with my entry:
Ultra-wide sphincter
(At that time, it registered one hit on the Small Business Administration website. Fitting?)
For grins I tried this with Google and got two hits: one was from some sort of scavenger hunt list and the other, of course, turned out to be my listing in the One-Hit Wonder page.