Dick, You have accomplished by accident [using the word lightly] a tactic for dealing with a problem that has perplexed man & woman kind since the telephone was invented...... THE UNSOLICITED SOLICITOR otherwise known as the SOLICITOR FROM HELL! You say that your "voice froze for a long enough period of time that he thought I had hung up on him" Congrulations! Now if we can figure how to do by design what you achieved by accident...hmmm Where did I leave my thinking cap? Don't anyone get us going on the trail of "my tactic works well on gas stove tele solicitors but not so well on bug spray solicitors" etc, etc my best G E O R G E [log in to unmask] AMAZING GRACE Amazing grace, how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me I once was lost, but now I'm found Was blind, but now I see