This is to celebrate my roommate Ann's birthday, and she said to invite as many people as I like. So all my friends and friends of those friends are invited. There will be a DJ and a couple of kegs + wine, etc. No confirmation on the time, but after 10pm should be fine.
josh [email] said at 2:07 PM 06-01-2006: also because marketeers search websites for phone numbers just like they do for email addresses. you will now get a lot more telemarketers.
brad [email] said at 3:02 PM 06-01-2006: do you know from experience? i doubt that will happen. it seems like they'd operate like this: for whatever product or service they happen to be selling, they would enter keywords related to that in a search engine. my post isn't related to any product or service, so how would they find my number without just stumbling on it? how does that work?
josh [email] said at 3:09 PM 06-01-2006: Why would they do that? They can just have spiders that spider the web and look for strings that look like ###-###-####
If it finds them, it adds them to a list of numbers.
Then they sell their list of numbers to telemarketers.
This is the same exact way that people harvest email addresses - they spider the net for strings that look like: ____@____.___ and then sell that list to spammers.
i know this happens because i get telemarketing calls to the killoggs voicemail # which is only published at the bottom of killoggs. i never got telemarketing calls to that #, which i've had for years, until the # was posted here.
brad [email] said at 3:40 PM 06-01-2006: yeah, i don't know about "spiders" and whatnot, but ok. maybe you could use your post editing skills and delete that line? please? it's no big deal really - telemarketers are easy to get rid of - but if it'll save my phone from ringing needlessly...
josh [email] said at 3:55 PM 06-01-2006: easy to get rid of... let me know your secret. i have a bunch that call my work cell and i cant even get a person. its a computerised call and if i hit the # to talk to an operator as soon as they realize i dont want to buy, they hang up.
i also get one on my work cell that is spanish language, and they dont seem to speak english at all, so i cant tell them to not call again.
myriam [email] said at 4:02 PM 06-01-2006: I've been getting Spanish telemarketers on my cell and it is driving me crazy!! They won't give up! And I keep getting this pleasant sensation like "I have a voicemail! yay!" when I leave work and then I realize it's only the spanish recording fairy. Disappointment indeed.
brad [email] said at 4:20 PM 06-01-2006: sweet, thanks.
it's been so many years since i've had a telemarketing call. back then, it was always a person making the call, you could just say, "don't ever call me again," and that was it. pretty annoying that you have to listen to a whole menu of options, like every other business related call, before you can punch the number indicating "i'm not interested." plus, if a person is calling, you can have some fun!
reggie [email] said at 8:38 AM 06-05-2006: That's awesome. Start off that day with the forthcoming block party in Chuck's 'hood...end the day at Brad's party.
I think I may document this entire day on my camera.
