Telephone etiquette

[milktree]

When you call someone who you have reason to believe won't recognize your voice, it's polite to start with, "Hello, my name is $name, I'm calling from $company|$club|$friend's_house about $thing."

If you start with, "Is this milktree?" My response is, "Who are you?", closely followed up by "why are you calling me?" and then, "click."

I really should start with, "Well, who did you call?"