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A Way To Limit Telemarketers’ Telephone Soliciting

Wednesday, March 19th, 2003 by Chris Pirillo at 6:18pm
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“Most telemarketers use what are called predictive dialers, which are PCs with software that dial every number in a phone exchange until they get lucky. Now you can use their own technology against them, and it’s legal.”

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Alex Wieder

June 23rd, 2007
at 1:53pm

OK, I landed on this page with a teaser paragraph about using technology to get back at telemarketers. Where’s the rest of the information?

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