h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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Belated item, on telephone etiquette, I've come to dread automatic dialing machine calls, outlawed all through the USA except for official purposes, nowadays with states that have a reverse 911 system to the purpose of ordering emergency evacuations or issuing other emergency orders, tantamount to using a siren on a personal automotive vehicle.

The reverse 911 system is credited with saving lives in for example the 2008 fire storm season in California. There were in excess of 2000 fatalities in the 2002 fire storm.

For all that private use of automatic dialing machines has been outlawed and is nowadays a felony all through the United States, there still are telephone marketing concerns that use them. They might be saying, "Hello, I'm a criminal. You can tell because I'm using one of those outlawed automatic dialing machines illegally... etc."

I very strongly object to having to put up with telephone spam since the majority of calls I receive other than telephone spam are either official or relate to personal emergencies. The largest preponderance of calls I receive though is still telephone spam.

Belated item, on telephone etiquette, I've come to dread automatic dialing machine calls, outlawed all through the USA except for official purposes, nowadays with states that have a reverse 911 system to the purpose of ordering emergency evacuations or issuing other emergency orders, tantamount to using a siren on a personal automotive vehicle.

The reverse 911 system is credited with saving lives, for example in the 2008 fire storm season in California. There were in excess of 2000 fatalities in the 2002 fire storm. Telephone spam has the effect of conditioning a 'little boy who cried wolf' response that may make people shy away in response to an official call of the character.

For all that private use of automatic dialing machines has been outlawed and is nowadays a felony all through the United States, there still are telephone marketing concerns that use them. They might as well be saying, "Hello, I'm a criminal. You can tell because I'm using one of those outlawed automatic dialing machines illegally... etc.", usually following through with bullying and blustering.

I very strongly object to having to put up with telephone spam since the majority of calls I receive other than telephone spam are either official or relate to personal emergencies. The largest preponderance of calls I receive though is still telephone spam.